#had

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

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I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#even #five #friends #good #good friends

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull. ↗

— Jim Fowler

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As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse. ↗

— Jodie Foster

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Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew. ↗

— John Foster

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I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. ↗

— Pete Fountain

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