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• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  Usain Bolt

  Race, Firsts, Remember

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.

  Elayne Boosler

  New Year, Memories, Vegas

  "Elayne Boosler Maps Comedy Heaven And Hell On New Year’s Eve" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: "Here comes the bride, all fat and wide." Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

  Jo Brand

  Sun, Married, Moments

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

  Herman Cain

  Motivation, Organization, People

  "A Pizza Party with Herman Cain". Interview with Devin Gordon, Alan Richman, Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

  Herman Cain

  Order, Government, Broken

  "Exclusive: Herman Cain's First Interview Since Suspending Campaign". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. December 08, 2011.

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• I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

  Michael Caine

  Pigs, Wanted

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• My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

  Steve Carell

  Death, New York, Husband

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.

  Graydon Carter

  Moving, Voice, Years

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• The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Technology, Men, Fire

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Mark Nesbitt (1996). “Through Blood & Fire: Selected Civil War Papers of Major General Joshua Chamberlain”, p.91, Stackpole Books

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• If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

  Chris Christie

  America, United States, Would Be

  "Christie: Obama remarks an 'outrage'" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.

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• One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation... He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the Army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008.

  William J. Clinton

  Army, America, President

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

  George Clooney

  Father, Way, Compromise

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• Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

  Gail Collins

  People, Voting, Income

  "Grand Bargain Express". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

  Gail Collins

  Wall, Makeup, Hair

  "How You Can Get Everything Your Mom Couldn't". Interview with Ashley Womble, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

  Christopher Columbus

  League, East, West

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• I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Want, Fame

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Thinking, Imagination

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• I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.

  Gail Devers

  Usa, Roots, People

  "U.S. Olympic trials: Q&A with legacy athlete Gail Devers". Interview with Paul Buker, www.oregonlive.com. June 23, 2012.

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• It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

  John Eldredge

  Men, People, Risk

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• I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

  Paloma Faith

  Home, Night, Men

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents' legs and cowered for shelter.

  Tom Felton

  Couple, Years, Parent

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• Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

  Ron Fournier

  Jobs, Negative, Campaigns

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• Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  Al Franken

  Feet, Years, Guy

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

  Hayden Fry

  Looks, Fields, Winner

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• I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Birthday, Children, Party

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