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Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.
Author:
Jeff Zucker
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So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Author:
Michael York
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
Author:
Gary Wright
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Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
Author:
George Wallace
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It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
Author:
Paul Virilio
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
Author:
Ben Vereen
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Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.
Author:
Ninette Valois
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If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
Author:
Al Unser
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Author:
Mark Twain
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
Author:
Francis Thompson
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I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
Author:
Stephen Stills
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I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.
Author:
Ryan Stiles
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When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.
Author:
Jackie Stewart
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.
Author:
Diane Sawyer
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When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.
Author:
Eric Roberts
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
Author:
Sally Ride
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
Author:
Sally Ride
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
Author:
John Ransom
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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
Author:
Martin Puryear
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Author:
Plato
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I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.
Author:
River Phoenix
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Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.
Author:
John Phillips
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It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.
Author:
Dick Patten
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We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.
Author:
Francis Parkman
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The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
Author:
Michael Ondaatje
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Author:
Ted Nugent
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A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Author:
Louis Nizer
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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
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Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
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A lot happens by accident in poetry.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
Author:
James Naismith
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Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Author:
Paul Meyer
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Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
Author:
Nicholas Meyer
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It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Author:
Golda Meir
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Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
Author:
Bobby McFerrin
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I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
Author:
Olivier Martinez
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Author:
Imelda Marcos
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Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
Author:
John Malkovich
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
Author:
Patrick MacGill
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All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Author:
Sidney Lumet
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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
Author:
Sidney Lumet
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So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Author:
Michael Ledeen
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I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.
Author:
Brooke Langton
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
Author:
John Kricfalusi
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Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
Author:
Chuck Knox
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It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.
Author:
Shirley Knight
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Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Author:
Nastassja Kinski
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Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Author:
Edward Kennedy
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Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
Author:
Donald Kagan
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You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.
Author:
Ashley Judd
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Author:
Lara John
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It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.
Author:
Laurent Jalabert
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It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.
Author:
William Jackson
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It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
Author:
Alec Issigonis
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Author:
Jacky Ickx
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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
Author:
J. Holland
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They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit.
Author:
Gregory Hines
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Author:
Patricia Highsmith
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Never insult anyone by accident.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
Author:
Alice Hamilton
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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Author:
Marilyn Hacker
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Author:
Albert Gyorgyi
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More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
Author:
Jeff Greenfield
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Author:
Horace Greeley
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After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.
Author:
Lou Gramm
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Author:
Carlo Goldoni
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If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
Author:
Alma Gluck
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One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
Author:
Alma Gluck
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We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.
Author:
Paul Glaser
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There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
Author:
Rudy Giuliani
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When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
Author:
Boutros Ghali
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I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
Author:
Gordon Getty
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There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
Author:
Leif Garrett
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
Author:
Helen Frankenthaler
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I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
Author:
John Frankenheimer
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If men have a smell it's usually an accident.
Author:
Jeff Foxworthy
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Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
Author:
Mike Figgis
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One does not become a guru by accident.
Author:
James Fenton
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ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
Author:
Dakota Fanning
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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I didn't get to the Senate by accident.
Author:
John Edwards
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Author:
Thomas Edison
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If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
Author:
Mary Eddy
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I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
Author:
Cameron Diaz
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
Author:
Don DeLillo
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Author:
Edgar Degas
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Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Author:
Phil Crosby
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I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
Author:
Michael Crichton
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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
Author:
Peter Cooper
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Author:
Emile Cioran
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Author:
Vincent Canby
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I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
Author:
Ryan Cabrera
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Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
Author:
Dick Butkus
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Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
Author:
Wilford Brimley
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
Author:
Manute Bol
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Author:
Kathryn Bigelow
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Author:
Ludwig Beethoven
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
Author:
Henry Bates
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What men call accident is God's own part.
Author:
Philip Bailey
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Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.
Author:
Leo Baekeland
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Author:
Robert Baden-Powell
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Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
Author:
Lauren Bacall
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Author:
Thomas Babington
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Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.
Author:
Rick Allen
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And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.
Author:
Rick Allen
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Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.
Author:
Rick Allen
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We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.
Author:
Steve Albini
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Author:
Renata Adler
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Author:
Henry Adams
