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  • Simeon Strunsky Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
    Simeon Strunsky
    American journalist (1879 - 1948)
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  • Augusten Burroughs Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would never give up London. It's a true world city, with an energy that's unique.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Cowper Once more I would adopt the graver style - a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Bob Schieffer Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
    Source: The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Garrison Keillor One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Ben Affleck One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carla Hall One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Brit Marling One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Harry A. Overstreet One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Butch Trucks One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Robert Browning One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Malcolm X Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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