Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Ian Fleming I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
    Ian Fleming
    British author and journalist (1908 - 1964)
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  • Horace I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Dorothy Parker I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Wayne Gretzky I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • C. S. Lewis I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Audre Lorde I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Lord George Byron I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Sebastian Faulks I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week, a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be.
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Terence I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Antoine Fuqua I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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