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  • Billy Collins When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bill Buford When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Bob Newhart When I was off TV, people would ask me to please come back, which I think was their way of saying, 'There's nothing out there for us.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Walt Whitman When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bob Hope When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Anthony Trollope When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Clark Moustakas When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.
    Clark Moustakas
    American psychologist (1923 - 2012)
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  • Bob Hope When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Bob Hope When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Camille Paglia When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bode Miller When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bill Viola When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge - one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ace Frehley When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bono When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ben Schnetzer When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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