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My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
Source: Inaugural, 20-01-1961 -
My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
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My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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My goal is to be the tough negotiator but... not to air differences through press releases.
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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Source: Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications -
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
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My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
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My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.
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My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.
Source: Letter to Neilson Abeel (October 4, 1935). -
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
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My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
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