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"I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt."

"I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt."

John H. Morgan, American General

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"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."

"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."

Aldo Leopold, American Environmentalist

Day, June, Man, May

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"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."

"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."

Robin Wright Penn, American Actress

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"It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling."

"It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling."

Allison Janney, American Actress

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"Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it."

"Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it."

Debbie Harry, American Musician

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"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"

"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"

Floyd Abrams, American Lawyer

Day, Defense, Effect, End

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"If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new."

"If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day."

"Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day."

Etty Hillesum, Dutch Lawyer

Day, Order, Will

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"Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups."

"Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups."

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

Day, Jazz, Talking

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"If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be."

"If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be."

Zakk Wylde, American Musician

44

"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

Jhonen Vasquez, American Cartoonist

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"I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real."

"I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real."

Barry Watson, American Actor

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"You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place."

"You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place."

Shelley Duvall, American Actress

Day, First, Woman

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"If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful."

"If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful."

Judy Collins, American Musician

Day, Now, Song, Songs

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"It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month."

"It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month."

Kathy Griffin, American Comedian

43

"I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day."

"I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

43

"I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math."

"I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math."

Andrew Shue, American Actor

Day, First, Months, Students

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"One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints."

"One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints."

John James Audubon, American Scientist

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"The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained."

"The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained."

Alexis Carrel, French Scientist

Day, Night, Results

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"Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news."

"Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news."

Ethel Waters, American Musician

Day, May, News, Today

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"What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?"

"What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?"

Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist

Day, Kings, Shadows

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"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."

"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

43

"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."

"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week."

Ken Thompson, American Scientist

Day, Job, Years

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"I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos."

"I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos."

Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli Scientist

43

"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times."

"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times."

Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian Actor

43

"I look forward to working out every day."

"I look forward to working out every day."

Clarence Clemons, American Musician

43

"But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all."

"But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all."

Thomas Haden Church, American Actor

Day, Famous, Reason

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"I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam."

"I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam."

Parker Stevenson, American Actor

Day, Draft, End, Vietnam

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"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor."

"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor."

Victoria Pratt, Canadian Actress

Day, First, Job

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"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."

"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."

Marie Curie, Polish Scientist

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"I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away."

"I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away."

Jeff Foxworthy, American Comedian

43

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Day, Man, Night, Sleep

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"Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice."

"Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice."

Jack Osbourne, English Celebrity

Day, Nothing, Want

43

"The day will happen whether or not you get up."

"The day will happen whether or not you get up."

John Ciardi, English Dramatist

43

"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."

"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."

Sergio Aragones, Spanish Cartoonist

Day, Jokes, Reason, Years

43

"I know one day I'll be considered too old."

"I know one day I'll be considered too old."

Claudia Schiffer, German Model

43

"The day is ours, and what the day has shown."

"The day is ours, and what the day has shown."

Helen Keller, American Author

Day, Time, Gratitude, Awareness, Presence

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"Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room."

"Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room."

Hilary Duff, American Actress

43

"I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera."

"I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera."

Lara Flynn Boyle, American Actress

42

"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."

"You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense."

John C. Reilly, American Actor

Day, Hollywood, Nonsense

42

"At the day of judgment we shall all meet again."

"At the day of judgment we shall all meet again."

George Whitefield, American Clergyman

42

"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."

"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."

George Clooney, American Actor

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"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."

"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

42

"When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy."

"When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy."

Victoria Principal, American Actress

42

"You'll be tested every single day."

"You'll be tested every single day."

John Ratzenberger, American Actor

42

"Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be."

"Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be."

Craig Bruce, American Radio Host

42

"When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing."

"When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing."

Alain Prost, French Celebrity

Day, Right, Testing

42

"We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are."

"We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are."

Kristin Davis, American Actress

42

"But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh."

"But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh."

Steve Brown, American Musician

42

"Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not."

"Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not."

Marty Robbins, American Musician

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