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  • Billy Strayhorn My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Lord George Byron 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.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Buffalo Bill 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.
    Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Maya Angelou 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.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bjorn Borg 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.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • John Wesley My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell 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.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Hull My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Maya Angelou My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Barry Larkin My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Mark Twain My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Springsteen My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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