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  • Caprice Bourret Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Bonnie Blair Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Ben Whishaw Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    Source: The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Aristotle Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aldous Huxley Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Ruskin Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ali Smith Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Ben Foster Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Martin Luther Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Carl Lewis Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Britney Spears Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Billy Graham Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bennett Miller Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
    Bennett Miller
    American film director (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Sher Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Bill Medley Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Adnan Pachachi Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Gerald Brenan Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
    Gerald Brenan
    British writer and hispanist (1894 - 1987)
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