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  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Benazir Bhutto It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
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    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • A. N. Wilson It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Susan Sontag It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe - though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bob Edwards It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Carlisle Floyd It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Sebastian Faulks It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
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    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Bill Flores It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • W. H. Auden It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bob Graham It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Adrien Brody It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.
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  • Bill Hicks It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Carole Bouquet It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Bethenny Frankel It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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