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  • Barry Switzer It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
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  • Bram Stoker It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Carol Shields It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 131
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Billy Eckstine It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Adam Baldwin It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • George Eliot It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Caroline Shaw It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Barbara Bush It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Henrik Ibsen It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Mark Twain It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Raymond Williams It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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  • Bob Geldof It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing.... We made giving exciting.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • George Wald It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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  • Carlos Ghosn It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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