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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31) -
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.
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I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.
Source: On Shoeless Joe Jackson, as quoted in Joe Jackson: A Biography (2004) by Kelly Boyer Sagert -
I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.
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I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.
Source: As quoted in Bruce Parry: My job doesnt allow me a private life by Cassandra Jardine in The Telegraph (19 September 1007) -
I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.
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I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
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I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
Source: Destinys daughter
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