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  • Abbey Lincoln I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Alanis Morissette I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Burt Rutan I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Darius Ogden Mills I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Adrian Lyne I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Lauren Bacall I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
    Lauren Bacall
    American actress and singer (1924 - 2014)
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  • Bill Hicks I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
    Source: Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bruce Bennett I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Tom Lehrer I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Anthony Hope I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Groucho Marx I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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