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  • Bryan Adams I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride would never have allowed me to.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Gore Vidal I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Buzz Osborne I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Barry Cornwall I never was on the dull, tame shore,
    But I loved the great sea more and more.
    The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bryan Procter I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
    Bryan Procter
    English poet (1787 - 1874)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Winston Churchill I never worry about action, but only inaction.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Walt Whitman I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • H. Youngman I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Broderick Crawford I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
    Broderick Crawford
    American actor (1911 - 1986)
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  • Nathan Hale I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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  • Khaled Hosseini I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Agnes Macphail I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Holden I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • William Cowper I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Buddy Rich I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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