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I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience.

H. W. Brands

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Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

Jeff Bridges

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I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.

Meta Golding

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I feel pretty comfortable in front of a camera.

Steve Aoki

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The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

Stephen Amell

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In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

Simon McBurney

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Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

Tony Stewart

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I'm not a big football person at all.

Robert De Niro

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There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

Tom Golisano

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There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Robert Bourassa

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I really respect Zakk Wylde's guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic.

Dimebag Darrell

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But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Diana Nyad

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I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

Desmond Dekker

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