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I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album. ↗

— Anita Baker

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People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced. ↗

— Tiki Barber

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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place. ↗

— Owen Arthur

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You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. ↗

— William Langewiesche

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It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ↗

— Michael Aspel

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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. ↗

— Eric Avery

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