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  • Mark Twain It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Raymond Williams It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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  • Bob Geldof It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing.... We made giving exciting.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Brad Sherman It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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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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  • Boyle Roche It would surely be better... to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Betsy Brandt It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
    The Rising (2002) Countin on a Miracle
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert It's a little less stressful as a support act, because the headliner carries the majority of the weight. But as a headliner, we get to play a little bit longer.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • James Thurber It's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Brooks Robinson It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Bono It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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