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  • Art Rooney Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
    Art Rooney
    American football team owner (1901 - )
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Lewis Carroll One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Gloria Steinem One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
    Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2017) 893
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Cam Newton One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Bryan Adams One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak One day Lara went out and did not come back.... She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was afterwards mislaid.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 15
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Abe Lemons One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
    Abe Lemons
    American basketball player and coach (1922 - 2002)
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  • Malcolm X One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Anish Kapoor One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Norman Augustine One of the most feared expressions in modern times is ''The computer is down''
    Norman Augustine
    American aerospace businessman (1935 - )
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  • Alan Lakein One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
    Alan Lakein
    American author on personal time management
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Charles III Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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