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  • Branch Rickey Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything 'even spikes on a new pair of shoes' but they will eventually... they are bound to.
    Source: In 1954
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Bryan Batt Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Ruskin Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Adriana Lima Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.
    Adriana Lima
    Brazilian model and actress (1981 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Austin O'Malley Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • James Patterson Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
    James Patterson
    American writer (1932 - 1972)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Bill Plympton Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Lord George Byron Believe a woman or an epitaph,
    Or any other thing that's false, before
    You trust in critics, who themselves are sore.
    Source: English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bruce Robinson Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • August Wilson Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Blaise Pascal Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Francis Schaeffer Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
    Francis Schaeffer
    American theologian and philosopher (1912 - 1984)
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