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  • Ann Beattie While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Scott While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Who applies for that job? Who says I want to work in lost luggage? You don't have a good day. That's like having a job emptying port-a-potties. You're just going to catch crap all day long.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Billy Beane Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Parcells Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Bubba Watson Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Bjork With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bob Schieffer With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bellamy Young With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Malcolm X Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
    By any means necessary (1992)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Malcolm X Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bryan Callen Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Hall Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
    Northern Exposure Baby Blues
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Camille Pissarro Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Bertie Carvel Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Britney Spears Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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