Quotes with son—and

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  • Anne Campbell I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Ann Bancroft I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Francis Bacon I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alexander the Great I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Oliver Cromwell I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Brock Lesnar I had the surgery, and it was removed, and I don't have any diverticulitis in me. It's gone. It has taken a number of years to feel good again.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Adolf Galland I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Sam Walton I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Albert Ellis I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bud Grant I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aldous Huxley I hate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Joan Rivers I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Samuel Johnson I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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