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  • Aaron Copland I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
    Source: Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Brooke Shields I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Alan Bennett I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
    Source: Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Walt Disney I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Ann Rule I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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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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  • Buchi Emecheta I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bryan Batt I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Art Buchwald I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Mark Twain I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Michel Faber I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
    Source: Lelieblank, scharlaken rood (2002)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • C. Colman I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver.
    C. Colman
     
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  • Josh Billings I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Franklin I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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