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  • Robert Burton I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Anthony Hope I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Atom Egoyan I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Brock Lesnar I missed the NFL by an inch. IRS problems... No money coming in, and not that many options left because I signed that stupid no-compete clause with WWE. I had no one to blame but myself.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • William Blake I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Golda Meir I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Sir Francis Drake I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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  • Arlen Specter I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Lewis H. Lapham I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Epicurus I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, Children, you must no make so much noise, that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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