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  • Ben Nicholson When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Winston Churchill When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bjork When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Carla Bruni When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Aaron Carter When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Josh Billings When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mark Twain When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carson Daly When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • C. C. H. Pounder When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Bitsie Tulloch When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Ben Barnes When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Ben Schwartz When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bil Keane When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Carl Safina When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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