Quotes with never-was

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  • Billy Corgan In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Albert Speer In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Robert E. Lee In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Ben Horowitz In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Barry Sanders In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Michael Ondaatje In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
    Source: De Engelse patient (2011) 67
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • J. A. Dever In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem
    J. A. Dever
     
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  • Candice Glover In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bill Keller In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Lord George Byron In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bo Burnham In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Lord Chesterfield In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Orwell In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carine Roitfeld In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Carole King In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • William Congreve In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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