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  • Alexander Pope I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Winston Churchill I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Burt Rutan I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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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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  • Angela Carter I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Carrie Fisher I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Brooke Shields I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Hedy Lamarr I was the highest-priced and most important star in Hollywood, but I was 'difficult.'
    Popcorn in Paradise (1980)
    Hedy Lamarr
    Austrian-American actress and inventor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Steven Wright I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Jonathan Miller I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bryce Harper I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
    Much Ado About Nothing 2, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Busta Rhymes I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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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.
    Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Angela Merkel I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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