i just take it on the chin and get on with it


David Sneddon

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VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
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If you plan of helping you don't need of saying it, act on it.
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Resist not, just float; duck not, take psychological blows on chin.
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took it on the chin.
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Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
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There is no "ROI" without the "I."
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Ride The Wave!
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Every metal has been taking it on the chin.
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I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense.
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There's doubt in trying.
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I must warn you, that those folks, it would take $40 million just to get a jump start on it.
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I'm psychologically equipped for this.
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Don't worry, don't panic.
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Nobody has hit him on the chin, ... He usually gets to their chin first.
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I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
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DAVID EINHORN
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL
I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun...
DAVID HILBERT
Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to...
DAVID TENNANT
I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up...
DAVID STRATHAIRN
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,...
DAVID LYNCH
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in...
DAVID HOCKNEY
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi...
DAVID HUME
Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom...
DAVID WHYTE
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
DAVID HUME
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
DAVID HILBERT
But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course o...
DAVID RITTENHOUSE
I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
DAVID HEARN
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
DAVID HOCKNEY
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn th...
DAVID ORTIZ
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE
I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
DAVID BRAINERD
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T...
DAVID LEVITHAN
You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
DAVID QUAMMEN
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street...
LARRY DAVID
I'm a walking, talking enigma.
LARRY DAVID
I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID
When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID
It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID
I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
LARRY DAVID
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik...
LARRY DAVID
I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
LARRY DAVID