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  • Brandon Sanderson My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Ben Folds My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Blank My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Ann Druyan My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Anna Held My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton My lowest days as a Christian [and There Were Low Ones - Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be Exact] have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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W. Bruce Cameron My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.
    Radio Interview, March 10 1999 [9]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Blake Farenthold My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bode Miller My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bailee Madison My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Billy Corgan My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • George Bernard Shaw My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Beth Ditto My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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