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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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  • Bill Bruford My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Bono My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • B. B. King My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Aileen Wuornos My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.
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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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  • Billie Lourd My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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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.
    Source: 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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  • Barry Marshall My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    British actor (1988 - )
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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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  • Bette Davis My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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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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  • Bono My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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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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