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  • Maya Angelou I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Willis I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Nancy Reagan I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Sandburg I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Charles M. Schulz I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
    Charles M. Schulz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • John Constable I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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  • George Bernard Shaw I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Nathan Hale I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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  • Khaled Hosseini I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Lord Nelson I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
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  • Anne Stevenson I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Oscar Wilde I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benazir Bhutto I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.
    At the rally in Rawalpindi after which she was assassinated. (27 December 2007)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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