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  • Alberto Salazar I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • B. B. King I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • B. B. King I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Assata Shakur I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Baz Luhrmann I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Beeban Kidron I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
    Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2012) 887
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • John Mason Brown I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William F. Buckley Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
    William F. Buckley
    American political commentator and journalist
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
    Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Bruce Coville Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bill Moyers Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Camilo Jose Cela Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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