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  • Lord George Byron I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • George S. Patton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Marianne Williamson I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • John Masefield I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Grandma Moses I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
    Grandma Moses
     
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  • Anton Chekhov I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • Bryan Fuller I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Beck I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.
    Source: Spin magazine, December 1999
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Tom Stoppard I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Ann Veneman I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I think it's important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they're sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Angela Carter I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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