Quotes with would-be

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  • James Taylor I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
    James Taylor
     
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  • Charlotte Brontë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Andrew Carnegie I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Robert Frost I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anna Quindlen I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Umberto Eco I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • William T. Sherman I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Neil Kinnock I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
    Neil Kinnock
     
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Elisabeth Gaskell I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
    Elisabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Albert Ellis I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • John Keats I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Stephen Hawking I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Richard Dawkins I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Rosa Parks I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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