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  • Bryce Harper My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • John Irving My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
    Source: In One Person (2012) 189
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Anna Sewell My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • Abel Ferrara My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Barry Lopez My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Casey Affleck My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg My fans are probably largely female; it wasn't until 'How to Make it in America' that guys started coming up to me: 'You're Bryan Greenberg.' 'Yeah... Don't hurt me. What do you want?' 'Love the show.'
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Jean Paul Getty My father said: ''You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.''
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Pete Rose My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
    Pete Rose
     
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  • Marianne Moore My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Bradford Dillman My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'
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  • Bernard M. Baruch My fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
    Source: Speech to United Nations meeting, 14 June 1946
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bryson My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Alex Haley My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Zuckerberg My goal was never to make Facebook cool.
    Source: Q&A 6 november 2014
    Mark Zuckerberg
    American internet entrepreneur (1984 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Peter Carey My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
    Source:  (2004)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Junot Diaz My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
    Source:  (2008)
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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