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John Newcombe

"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity."

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"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity."

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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

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"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."

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"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."

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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

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"Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio."

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"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."

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"I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them."

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Amber Hurdle

"We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living."

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"Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby."

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"I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them."
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"I was a pretty feisty young kid."
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"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."
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"Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb."
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"By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit."
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