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  • George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Paul Klee Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Butler Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Stokely Carmichael Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Bruce Johnston Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Daniel Day Lewis Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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  • Buzz Aldrin Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • André Malraux Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bob Kane Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.
    Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Carlos Santana Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Santayana Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Candice Swanepoel Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.
    Candice Swanepoel
    South African model and philanthropist (1988 - )
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  • Billy Eckstine Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Zig Ziglar Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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