Quotes with sure-thing

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  • Al Spalding I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Bubba Watson I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Bette Davis I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
    Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Barack Obama I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
    Source: Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Buddy Valastro I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adam Savage I wouldn't say Jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Alistair Maclean I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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  • Barry Sheene I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
    Barry Sheene
    British professional motorcycle racer (1950 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Bela Lugosi I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bill Gates I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
    Source: Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip Reuters (21 March 2007)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Andy Warhol I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Brock Lesnar I'm always staying motivated because, as training camp goes on, practices become more intense, harder, and shorter. It's a mental thing, too, not only physical - you have to stay mentally sharp and stay focused on the task in front of you.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bill Hader I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Alan Parsons I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Barry Sanders I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Barry Larkin I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Barbara Park I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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