Quotes with petty--never

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  • Bud Grant I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment; that's all it is.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • W. C. Fields I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Anita Diamant I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Gore Vidal I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ray Charles I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
    Ray Charles
    American singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (1918 - 2015)
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  • Buzz Osborne I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Barry Cornwall I never was on the dull, tame shore,
    But I loved the great sea more and more.
    Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bryan Procter I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
    Bryan Procter
    English poet (1787 - 1874)
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Winston Churchill I never worry about action, but only inaction.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Annie Dillard I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • John Malkovich I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
    John Malkovich
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Ben Hogan I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Burgess Owens I played on the Jets during Namath's last four years, and we used to ask ourselves, 'When is it going to happen? When are they finally going to replace him?' We'd wait for it, week by week, but it never happened.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Richard Baxter I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
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