Quotes with petty--never

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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
    Source: As quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984)
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Arthur Wellesley I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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  • Armistead Maupin I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Lord George Byron I have always laid it down as a maxim - and found it justified by experience - that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex - but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Paul Gauguin I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Assata Shakur I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Salvador Dali I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Lord George Byron I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • James A. Garfield I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Wilson Mizner I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Adam Clarke I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • James Gordon Bennett Jr I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
    James Gordon Bennett Jr
    American publisher (NY Herald) (1841 - 1918)
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  • James Gordon Bennett I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
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  • Winston Churchill I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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