Quotes with might-have-been

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  • William Trevor I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
    William Trevor
    Irish writer (1928 - 2016)
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W. Bruce Cameron I read that all dogs have wolf DNA in them, which seemed preposterous because my dog, Tucker, is... afraid of plastic bags blowing in the wind. I thought, 'How can Tucker have wolf in him? How can this be?' So I started researching it.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Edith Cavell I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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  • Burt Shavitz I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Larry Bird I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
    Larry Bird
    American basketbal player and coach (1956 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Iain Banks I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Anne Tyler I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Michael Moore I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Henry I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Martha Gellhorn I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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