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  • Angela Carter I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Allan Carr I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Albert Ellis I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Gloria Steinem I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
    Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2012) 887
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Charles Barkley If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
    Charles Barkley
    American professional basketball player (1963 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Cynthia Nelms If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.
    Cynthia Nelms
    American painter
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  • Paul Auster If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
    Moon Palace (2010) 111
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Carol Shields If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 283
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Ben Horowitz In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Abraham Polonsky Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Orson Scott Card It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.
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  • Bryan Robson Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
    The New York Times (12 december 2004)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bill Gates Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
    "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, June 23 2003, www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Betty Friedan Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Harold J. Smith More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
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  • Branford Marsalis My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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