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  • Bryce Harper I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
    Much Ado About Nothing 2, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Busta Rhymes I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Angela Merkel I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Aeschylus I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bill Hicks I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anna Held I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Jane Austen I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Neil Kinnock I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
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  • Albert Ellis I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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