Quotes with present-day

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  • Anne Frank Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bill Walton My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Brent Sexton My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Barry Hannah My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Bryce Harper My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Bill Cosby My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Barrett Foa My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Barbara Cooney My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Bill Burr My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Boomer Esiason My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Ellen DeGeneres My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
    Ellen DeGeneres
    American comedian, actress, writer, and producer (1958 - )
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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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  • Barbara Corcoran My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Billy Corgan My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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