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• I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took steroids intentionally, I'm never going to convince them. But I hope the voters judge my career fairly and don't look at one mistake.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Mistake, Taken, Thinking

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• I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset.

  Bon Scott

  Upset

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• My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them? . . . I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  Jackie Collins

  Baby, Book, Writing

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• I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  People, Technique, Plot

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.12, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

  Focus, Live For Today, Tomorrow

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, p.28, Hazelden Publishing

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• I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.

  Eli Manning

  Jobs, Smart, Moving

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• I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.

  Eli Manning

  Being The Best, Quarterback

  "Q&A with Eli Manning: QB talks best Super Bowl catch and roughhousing with Peyton". Interview with Jason Cole, www.yahoo.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

  Tim Tebow

  Attitude, College, Worry

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• I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

  Steven Morrissey

  Smell, Burning, Flesh

  "Morrissey Forced Off Stage at Coachella by Smell of Burning Meat" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2009.

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• If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question—you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.

  Tony Robbins

  Kids, Heart, Finding Yourself

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• If I can't - then I must. If I must - then I will.

  Tony Robbins

  Inner Strength, Ifs

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• Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.

  Peggy Noonan

  Home, Wind, Land

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• I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

  Pat Oliphant

  Done, Students, Always Learning

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• I know you have been waiting on hold for 40 minutes, but I can't answer your question.

  Jon Jones

  Waiting, Answers, Minutes

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• I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

  Anita Hill

  Lines, Cleaning, Lawyer

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• Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

  Lucy Stone

  Victory, Principles, Endure

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Thinking, Achievement

  "The Illusion of Total Security". Radcliffe Commencement Address on June 16, 1954. The Atlantic Monthly, No.194, August 1954.

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• I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.

  Oswald Grubel

  Long, Risk, Management

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• The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetimes troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed every atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh... I can take no more.

  Lu Tong

  Loneliness, Book, Inspiration

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• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Decision, Nerd, Important

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• I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Regret, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

  Kent Beck

  Simplicity, Design, Forever

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• I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

  Gil Hodges

  Motivational, Baseball, Wells

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