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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Lord Nelson I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
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  • Orson Welles I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Butch Trucks I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Aileen Wuornos I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.
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  • Jimmy Carter I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Erin Cleary I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
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  • A. S. Byatt I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
    Possession (1990)
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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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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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals…
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anais Nin I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Erma Bombeck I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ''Checkout Time is 18 years.''
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Adam Osborne I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Napoleon I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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