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I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.
George Michael
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If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.


George Bernard Shaw
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The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.
Crystal Chappell
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I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.


Max Hastings
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
Lucinda Williams
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For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I want to shop: sustainable, classic, great quality.
Lykke Li
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I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
Michael Bolton
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Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.


Christopher Dawson
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I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Michael Jackson
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.


Rita Mae Brown
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If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.
Graham Nelson
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I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.
Lorene Scafaria
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My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!
Nick Harkaway
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If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.
Andrew Motion
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If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.


Beyonce Knowles
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.


Seamus Heaney
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The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.
Maury Yeston
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.


Ted Turner
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The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.


Matthew Henry
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