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  • Bill Cosby Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Sylvester Stallone Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Mario Puzo Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • A. N. Wilson Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Burr Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Coville Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Joseph Heller Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Lord George Byron Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bainbridge Colby Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • John Dryden Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Allen Klein Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Bill Flores Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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