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  • Adam Clayton I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Socrates I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bruce Davison I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Anna Freud I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Buck Owens I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Alan Bennett I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Alonzo Church I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Aleister Crowley I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Allan Carr I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Henry Morton Stanley I was becoming wise by experience, and I was compelled to observe that when mud and wet sapped the physical energy of the lazily-inclined, a dog-whip became their backs, restoring them to a sound--some-times to an extravagant activity.
    How I found Livingstone (1872) Ch. 6
    Henry Morton Stanley
    Welsh-American journalist and explorer (1841 - 1904)
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  • Burt Bacharach I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Bryce Courtenay I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Buddha I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Burton Richter I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Audrey Hepburn I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • James A. Michener I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Bryan Robson I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Bill Bailey I was digging with a fork out of the kitchen drawer sewing tictacs, I didn't know what the hell I was doing. After a bit I got bored and just started burying cheap spoons to baffle the archaeologists of the future
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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