Quotes with well-descended

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  • Benjamin Booker My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Casey Wilson My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Billy Corgan My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.
    Rolling Stone. 23 January 1997
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen is her daughter.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Claiborne Pell My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
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  • Ben Stein My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anne Perry Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Italo Calvino Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Francis Bacon Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Nye NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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