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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Griffith What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Bruno Mars What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Abbe Pierre What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Bill Flores What I'd like to see Donald Trump do is start talking about his vision for leading the country and the policies that he would propose that would help hardworking American families who have struggled through the last few years and then also to differentiate himself from Hillary Clinton.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • James Madison What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Chief Seattle What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Virginia Woolf What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John McEnroe What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
    John McEnroe
     
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  • Francis Bacon What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Bill Goldberg What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Al Yankovic What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • E. M. Cioran What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Vincent Van Gogh What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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