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I wanted to be a professional baseball player. ↗

— Balthazar Getty

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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. ↗

— Jean Genet

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ↗

— Jean Genet

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Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. ↗

— Stanley Kunitz

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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance. ↗

— Boy George

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I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records. ↗

— Boy George

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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