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I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.


Ann Rinaldi
Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.
Sevyn Streeter
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When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
Katherine Kelly
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Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.


Trent Reznor
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Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.


Rick Mercer
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.


Mae West
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We just want to make sure the best candidates get the attention they deserve.


Terry Sanford
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I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out there and let the baseball fandom see them.
Tony La Russa
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.


Irwin Shaw
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.


Robert Frost
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My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don't really want to share, but that I almost feel the need to share. It's a way for me to get things out that I can't get out in life, you know, in real regular conversation with people.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
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As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, and I wanted to do that too. And I told my family, I said, 'I'd like to go down and be like William Beebe,' and they said, 'Well, maybe you can take up typing and get to be the secretary of William Beebe or somebody like him.'
Eugenie Clark
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.


Oscar Wilde
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.


Pablo Picasso
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There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
Matthew McConaughey
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Hannah Arendt
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I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It's crammed Post-its.
Aerin Lauder
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When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.


Ron Reagan
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
Alan Furst
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