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  • Buffalo Bill I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
    Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
    Player Piano
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Woody Allen I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Annie Dillard I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains.
    Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Babbitt I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bette Davis I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Becki Newton I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Davison I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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