Quotes with would-be

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  • Astrid Lindgren I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Antonia Fraser I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Bill Gates I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
    1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1]
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Andy Rooney I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Anne Rice I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Lord George Byron I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Armistead Maupin I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • George Santayana I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Art Linkletter I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
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  • Primo Levi I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Bryan Singer I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Bette Davis I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
    Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) Bette Davis smoking over Stepmother role
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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