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  • Busta Rhymes I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bruce Willis I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
    Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. [2]
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Harper Lee I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Walter Savage Landor I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Alan Parsons I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • David Gemmell I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?
    A Personal History (1983) p. 301
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Adam Clayton I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Socrates I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bruce Davison I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Anna Freud I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Buck Owens I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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