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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.
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  • Bernard Berenson I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Alan Coren I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Arne Duncan I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bailee Madison I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Jack Nicklaus I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Bruce Sutter I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • George Carlin I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Carol Shields I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
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    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Busy Philipps I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Adam Sandler I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Benny Blanco I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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