The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

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CARLY CRAIG

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NIECY NASH

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SUE MILLER

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
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PAM FERRIS I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.
SONIA RYKIEL

By ancestry, I was born to rule.
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PATINA MILLER

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JUNE WHITFIELD

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TAMAE WATANABE

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I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT

I was born 'neath a clouded star.
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GEORGETTE MOSBACHER

I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT

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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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DANIEL JONES

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SAM CASSELL I was supposed to go on pick and roll, but I got isolated, and usually I can get a shot off. Tonight...
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ELAINE SWANN I love people. I was born loving people.
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JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
JARED DIAMOND The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer...
JARED DIAMOND Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...
JARED DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND It's a clear signal that Pennsylvanians have awoke from their long slumber.
RUSS DIAMOND Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.
JAMES DIAMOND Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
JARED DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
JARED DIAMOND How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
JARED DIAMOND Australia is the most isolated continent.
JARED DIAMOND They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...
RUSS DIAMOND Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to...
RUSS DIAMOND The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us.
RUSS DIAMOND I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.
RUSS DIAMOND They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
RUSS DIAMOND Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
JARED DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
DUSTIN DIAMOND Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
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The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

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The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

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