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  • Harry S. Truman I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bryan Adams I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Barry Hannah I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Bryan Singer I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Alan Parsons I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Alan Alda I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Burton Hillis I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It is just in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
    Burton Hillis
     
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  • Betty Williams I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Ben Affleck I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Joan Didion I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
    Source: A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Albert Ellis I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Assata Shakur I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Burton Richter I've become interested in the impact of climate change on the world and the future of energy needs for the developing world.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Leonard Bernstein I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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