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  • I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
  • The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.
  • William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
  • Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
  • I'm telling you, back in those Wendover days, it wasn't that hard to get it out of me.
  • In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
  • Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
  • Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
  • For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
  • My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
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  • Billy Porter There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Benjamin Booker As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Bobby Flay 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • George E. Mueller A young girl was asked: ''Whose preaching brought you to Christ?'' ''It wasn't anybody's preaching; it was Aunt Mary's practicing,'' he replied. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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  • Bill Skarsgard Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Bill Veeck After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Bill Bailey Ah, lovely: the ripple, the ripple there. That's nearly the Zen clap of acceptance there, wasn't it?
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Ted Turner All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
    Ted Turner
    American media mogul and philanthropist (1938 - )
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  • Richard C. Cushing Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
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  • Martin Amis America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Barry McGuire And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Albert Ellis As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Joseph Conrad As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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