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  • Caitlin Moran It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bob Saget It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Bernard Malamud It was all those biographies in me yelling, We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
    Source: A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Source: Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Carol Shields It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
    Source: The Marriage Plot (2011) 314
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Mark Twain It was the schoolboy who said, ''Faith is believing what you know ain't so.''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    Source: The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ben Gibbard It wasn't quite what is seemed: a lack of pleasantries
    (My able body isn't what it used to be)
    I must admit I was charmed by your advances
    Your advantage left me helplessly into you
    Source: We Have the Facts and Were Voting Yes Title Track
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Scott O'Grady It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion - these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.
    Scott O'Grady
     
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  • Ben Harper It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Janet Frame It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
    Janet Frame
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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  • Bob Saget It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Katharine Hepburn It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Bill Watterson It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will
    Source: The Rising (2002) Countin on a Miracle
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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