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• H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Lines, May, Mail

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• Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Swimming, Fishing

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• I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

  Noel Coward

  Country, Horse, Want

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.208, A&C Black

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• I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.

  Maysoon Zayid

  Problem

  "I got 99 problems... palsy is just one". TEDWomen Talk, www.ted.com. December 2013.

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• I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

  Pat Conroy

  Way, Reviews, Bother

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• Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

  Idries Shah

  Talking, Broken, Preparation

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.134, Octagon Press Ltd

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• We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

  Joan Didion

  Fate, Men, Escaping

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 24, 2011

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• A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference.

  Jane Goodall

  Women, Book, Differences

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• In the beginning, not everyone may be able to clearly repeat every mantra in the 1000 Names. In that case, everyone can respond to the chants with just one mantra. While chanting the 1000 Names, the response may be 'Om Parashaktyai Namaha' or 'Om Sivasaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha'.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Names, Meditation, May

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• It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?

  Julia Child

  Beautiful, San Francisco, Free Spirit

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• Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.

  Gary B.B. Coleman

  Sadness, Eye, Tears

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• I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.

  Evander Holyfield

  Mother, Strong, Nice

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• Too many lives are needed to make just one.

  Eugenio Montale

  Character, Needed

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• Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Writing, Goal, Perspective

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• When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.

  William Peter Blatty

  Believe, Order, Years

  "Fictional character: Col. Vincent Kane". The Ninth Configuration, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys who was just like, "You know, look, when I was seven I had a six-pack, and it just never went away."

  Max Greenfield

  People, Guy, Wish

  "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.

  Shane Black

  Differentiation, Action, Quiet

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• Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Emotional, Singing, Hollywood

  "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

  Clancy Brown

  Play, Guy, One Time

  "Clancy Brown Returns to Lex Luthor in 'Superman/Batman: Public Enemies'". CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. September 2, 2009.

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• Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

  Bradley Cooper

  Directors, Way, One Way

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• As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.

  Julian Castro

  Blessing, Opportunity, Usa

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• I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.

  Neve Campbell

  Hands, People, Upset

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• Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

  Ray Conniff

  Art, Differences, People

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• I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

  Jerry Doyle

  Beach, School, Flying

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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