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  • Anthony Doerr I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • James R. Cook I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
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  • Isadora Duncan I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • William Shakespeare I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oliver Cromwell I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Brock Lesnar I had the surgery, and it was removed, and I don't have any diverticulitis in me. It's gone. It has taken a number of years to feel good again.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus I happen to have a very bad fit of the tooth-ache at the time I am writing this.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XII, 6, 8
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Bud Grant I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Joan Rivers I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • William Butler Yeats I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Anita Diamant I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Agatha Christie I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
    A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Martin Luther King I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Martin Luther King I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Martin Luther King I have a dream, that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by their character.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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