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As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

Jill Abramson

Frustration, Past, Careers

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Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.

Ray Stevens

Player, Musician, Bills

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I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

Raf Simons

Dior, Want, Abstract

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We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.

Buddy Ryan

Football, Team, Sight

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Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

Bruce Sutter

Mind, Fame, Pitcher

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A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.

John Wayne

Firsts, Asks

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Naturally, I mine my girlfriends lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

Lauren Weisberger

Girlfriend, Book, Anecdotes

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Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Country, Taken, Mexico

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Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

Keith Hernandez

Alex, Mickey, Very Good

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Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

Arthur D. Levinson

Hobbies, Physics, Persons

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The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Nick Flynn

Plato, Book, Years

"The Ticking Is the Bomb" by Nick Flynn, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2008.

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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Morality, He Man

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In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?

Jessica Valenti

Religious, Party, Boys

"The case for free tampons?" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2014.

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A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

Athol Fugard

Age, Close Friends, Havens

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Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.

Tabatha Coffey

Successful, Pet, Gum

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When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

John Wayne

Want, Uncomfortable, Disappointed

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I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

Caroline Lawrence

Horse, Fun, Book

"My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

Stephen Fry

Silly, Apology, Mind

Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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Show so clearly that this matter is God's work, not mine.

Mary Potter

Matter, Shows

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You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?

Natalie

Party, Nuts, Dip

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If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

Steve Gleason

People, Inspire, Purpose

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"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

Charles Dickens

Love, Running, Selfish

Charles Dickens (1890*). “Works”

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.

Charles Dickens

Love, Heart, Hands

Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.543

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To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

Charles Dickens

Love, Writing, Ambition

Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.291, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."

Charles Dickens

Funny, Humorous, Years

Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (in 30 Volumes, Illustrated): Dombey and Son, Vol. I”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

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