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  • Billie Jean King I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
    Source: Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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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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  • Bruno Mars I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Gates I wish I wasn't... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
    Source: On being the worlds richest man, in an online advertising conference in Redmond, Washington, as quoted in The Guardian (5 May 2006)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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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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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Aaron McGruder I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
    Source: The Boondocks
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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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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  • 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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  • George Bernard Shaw I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Luigi Pirandello I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Cato the Elder I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Bill Bailey I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
    Source: Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Speer I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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