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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Isaac Asimov I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Alfred Eisenstaedt I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
    Alfred Eisenstaedt
    German-born American photographer and photojournalist (1898 - 1995)
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  • Andy Rooney I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Groucho Marx I don't want to belong to any organization that would have me as a member.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Anthony Trollope I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Christina Rossetti I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Burnie Burns I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • William S. Burroughs I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • A. E. van Vogt I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Muhammad Ali I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Alan Cohen I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Alejo Carpentier I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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