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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
One Day

"My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms."

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
One Day

"Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end."

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Tony Parker Professional Basketball Player
One Day

"Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy."

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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
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"I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere."

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Gabrielle Bernstein Author, Speaker
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"We associate stress with action, but how can you take action without stress? You take the right actions with a different energy. Yes, that might affect the speed at which you work or how much you get done in one day, but you'll probably get things done more efficiently."

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"Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out."

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"Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

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John Lewis Politician
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"If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'"

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company."

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Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day."

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Benny Hill Comedian, Actor
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"I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one."

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