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  • Alberto Giacometti Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Billy Joel Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Annie Dillard As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Albert Camus As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Oscar Wilde As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Hubbell As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Albert Claude As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Seneca As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bryan Greenberg As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Candice Millard As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Artur Davis As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Carolyn Kizer As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
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  • Brad Meltzer As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Bob Knight As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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