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  • Bennie Thompson I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
    ― Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Ted Turner I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
    ― Ted Turner
    American media mogul and philanthropist (1938 - )
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  • Paul Harvey I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist.
    ― Paul Harvey
    American radio broadcaster (1918 - 2009)
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  • Alan Bennett I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
    ― Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I've never turned down a fight in the UFC. Even when I was champ, I never turned down a fight.
    ― Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Margaret Atwood I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
    ― Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Bill McCartney I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
    Source: From Ashes to Glory
    ― Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
    ― Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Joan Collins I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
    ― Joan Collins
     
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  • B. B. King I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
    ― B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ben Brantley I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
    ― Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
    ― Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • A. E. Housman I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
    ― A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • John Mason Brown I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
    ― John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
    ― Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
    ― Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Herodotus If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
    ― Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Aeschylus If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
    ― Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Dan Rather If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
    ― Dan Rather
     
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    ― Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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