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Do you like pets better than toys and books? I always did, so I thought very likely you would too.


Georgette Heyer

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T.I. She looked stunned. “I feel like I don't know you anymore.” “You never did,” I replied, just...
NENIA CAMPBELL And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w...
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BILL SPENCER Aye, well, I've got my garden.
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LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
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LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys.
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BRIAN HARE It's actually gone better than I thought it would. Once you are out there you don't really notice an...
CODY ZIMMERMAN I'm everything you thought I would never be. I'm the woman you thought I could never amount to. I ha...
LAURA KESSLER I thought we would do a lot better than that. We made so many big numbers it was unbelievable.
JIM BROWN I am really pleased I am just so proud that he did a lot better than me. That's what you want for th...
HEATHER THOMAS Before the season, I never thought I would finish this high. You have to draw the line somewhere abo...
JEFF MONTAGUE I know and you know people who would not leave without their pets. They will stay. They did stay in ...
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS I think it was huge. Toys had a huge couple of days (as did) software, categories we thought would b...
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HARRY YOU I thought their guards played a lot better than I thought they could. I thought we would be able to ...
ERIC SCHMIDT I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.
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GARY SHTEYNGART I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough b...
ZOë MARRIOTT If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
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COLM TóIBíN I can tell you that he did turn away from some (legal) recommendations because he just thought they ...
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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I thought I was better than him last year, really. The players on the team thought so too, but he wa...
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GAIL HARTIGAN I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than ...
KEN VENTURI I always thought everybody else was better than me.
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MARC ACITO I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - t...
CANDACE CAMERON BURE What did you do?" I scream.
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VERONICA ROTH I thought tanning was better for you than the sun.
HEATHER SCHULTE Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?
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RACHEL CAINE I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that s...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot be...
DONALD KNUTH Alec pulled his knees up to his chest and looked thoughtfully at Jace. “I know,” he said. “I�...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not weird,' Elle said defensively.
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HARRIET EVANS I always thought to myself, 'Why should I appease you, Mr. So-and-So? Why shouldn't I just be who I ...
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AIDY BRYANT I didn't like Scream too much. I thought Scream 2 was better.
GEORGE A. ROMERO What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. B...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easi...
MICHELLE FORBES I just thought, 'This is what you do, get ground balls. Here and there, I felt good. I battled, the ...
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