Quotes with one-child

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  • Mark Twain When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. 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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  • Bruce Springsteen When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Conner When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.
    Looking for Bruce Conner
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Carolina Herrera When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard him say again,
    The heart out of the bosom
    Was never given in vain;
    'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
    And sold for endless rue.
    And I am two-and-twenty
    And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 13, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Robinson When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bel Powley When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Albert Claude When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Brandon Sanderson When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bobby Flay When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Joan Didion When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
    (2017)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Anne Tyler When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Katharine Whitehorn When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Barry Ritholtz When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ben Harper When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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