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I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.


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NEIL YOUNG Never test the depth of a river with both feet...unless it's a river of love.
DONNA M THOMAS I never believed that it would be possible, but you have this chance once in a lifetime.
GOSIA SOBALA I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.
JAMES TOBACK I would never do anything that's derogatory to women.
KRITI SANON Never say anything unless it is kind, necessary and true.
UNKNOWN I would never do it in public. I would really find it degrading to do it in public.
BRIAN MAY I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
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TED RALL In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except i...
LANGSTON HUGHES I never feel there's anything I can't do.
DANIEL CLOWES I'm a massive scaredy cat. I'm scared of being in a fast car, I'm scared of being on a r...
SHARON HORGAN You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never...
JOSEPH SMITH JR. I never predict anything, and I never will.
PAUL GASCOIGNE They never do anything about it.
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DAVID H. MURDOCK I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.
BETTE PAGE I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.
BETTIE PAGE I never feel confident in anything.
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MICHAEL WOLFE I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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ADRIAN PHOENIX No power in the 'verse can stop me!
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