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  • Bae Doona In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
    Bae Doona
    South Korean actress and photographer (1979 - )
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  • Francis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ben Mezrich In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
    Ben Mezrich
     
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  • Bill Gates In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    Source: PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Caprice Bourret In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Billy Bragg In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Franklin In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Shunryu Suzuki In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
    Shunryu Suzuki
    Japanese Buddhist missionary (1904 - 1971)
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  • Ellen DeGeneres In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
    Ellen DeGeneres
    American comedian, actress, writer, and producer (1958 - )
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  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Billy Corgan In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Mortimer J. Adler In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Michael Ondaatje In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.
    Source: De Engelse patient (2011) 25
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bryan Robson In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • William Ernest Henley In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
    William Ernest Henley
    English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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