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  • Ben Whishaw Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Keed, I'll give you a little bit of advice. Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad. Two, get the dough while the getting is good, but don't break your heart trying to get it. And don't pick up too many checks!
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bill Condon Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Ben Folds Last night I was east with them
    And west within
    Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
    Lyrics Best Imitation of Myself, Ben Folds Five (1995)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bill Haslam Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help you on that issue; I don't agree with what you're trying to do;' and they can turn down that person, and they can go somewhere else.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • William Frederick Book Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • Bill Goldberg Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Woody Guthrie Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 65
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bill Parcells Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Brad Holland Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Brad Feld Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Brent Scowcroft Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Benjamin Walker Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. That fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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