“I have seen several ups and downs in my life. I have seen several detractors in my life. Why should I bother about that? In my 40 years in politics I have passed through such events and I don't want to take these things seriously. I will take things philosophically.”
Source: R R Nair "The Rediff Election Interview/H D Deve Gowda"
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“These are the ugliest people I have ever seen in my life. I have to buy this!”
When looking at the back of Metallica's Kill 'Em All.

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“Most interesting forest I have seen in my whole life.”
journal entry http://digitalcollections.pacific.edu/cdm/ref/collection/muirjournals/id/3766/show/3742 (24 October 1911) concerning Araucaria braziliensis in southern Brazil; published in John Muir's Last Journey, edited by Michael P. Branch (Island Press, 2001), page 88
1910s

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As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.

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Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1962</big>