"My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up."
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"The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him."
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"That which never has been, never is, and never will be."
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"For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse."
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"Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us."
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"It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting."
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"I now consider the money I put into my pension to have been a mistake."
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"I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it."
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"Not everything in my life has been pretty."
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"The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future."
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"All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning."
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"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"
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"We do know that [Hillary Clinton] was probably attacked and smeared as much as any candidate ever has been. We know that."
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"If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous."
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"Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life."
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"I must have been an insufferable child; all children are."
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"I have been much blessed."
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"My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do."
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"I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare."
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"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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