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  • Brendon Burchard My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Barry Hannah My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Dickinson My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Robert E. Lee My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Bill Paxton My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Anish Kapoor My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Cary Grant My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Bela Karolyi My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Bill Haslam My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • B. B. King My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Tupac Shakur My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Busy Philipps My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Robert Southey My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
    Source: Carmen Nuptiale
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Bill Mauldin My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
    Source: Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Buzz Aldrin My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Bill Rancic My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Billy Crudup My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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