Quotes with next-best

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  • Malcolm X I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Terry Pratchett I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Beck I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
    Source: Rolling Stone magazine, 1996
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Tom Ogden I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.
    Tom Ogden
     
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  • Anthony Hamilton I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.
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  • Abraham Lincoln I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alice Munro I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?
    Source: A Personal History (1983) p. 301
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Margaret Mitchell I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Woody Allen I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Arthur Golden I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • John McCain I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Buck Owens I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Burt Bacharach I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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