Quotes with twenty-first

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  • Bill Murray I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.
    I know how to be sour, The Guardian, December 2003
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Earl Warren I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Henry Kissinger I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • John W. Gardner I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Mikhail Baryshnikov I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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  • Anita Hill I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bruce Scheneier I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Albert Einstein I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Philip Sousa I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • Aleister Crowley I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Bryan Batt I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bryan Cogman I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bruce Cockburn I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
    Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Peter Ustinov I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Arne Jacobsen I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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