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  • Groucho Marx I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Walters I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
    Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974)
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • William Congreve I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Lord Chesterfield I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Vince Lombardi I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bryan Batt I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Lee Iacocca I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Buck Owens I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Augustus I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
    Augustus
    Roman emperor (63 - 14)
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  • Assata Shakur I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anne Rice I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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