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Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too. STEPHEN KING Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, '... TOM CLANCY People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... TYLER FLORENCE Want a balloon? STEPHEN KING You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it... LARRY HOLMES When you faced the Cardinals, it was a seven-inning game. You better have the lead after seven. If n... TONY GWYNN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON [King] also wouldn't be happy to see that the people here in D.C. still don't have rights when it co... JOHN CAPOZZI Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally. STEPHEN KING It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. Howe... NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never kno... NATALIE MARTINEZ I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It... BECKY LYNCH Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back t... STEVE PREFONTAINE A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters. BARBARA CORCORAN It is always interesting to put seed into the ground and see what comes up, JOE MOORE It always comes down to us and St. Mike's (at Clovis). Sometimes we win, and sometimes we don't. DELLA RECTOR You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that... GARY LARSON I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience... BRANT DAUGHERTY You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousan... STEVE ROLAND PREFONTAINE It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth! AGATHA CHRISTIE Sometimes new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always th... GILLIAN ANDERSON Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, jus... M.L. STEDMAN stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE STEPHEN KING You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN He's extremely skilled. Nothing against Minnesota, but when you play that style, the first thing tha... DAN CLOUTIER Whether that comes from work between Norwood and the White House, or whether it comes from our work ... DICK ARMEY I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in... DEYTH BANGER He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL You're not perfect. Sometimes, you can be a real jerk. Not on purpose. Just sometimes. But no matter... MARK WAID Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, yo... AARON ASHMORE We have some momentum going, but I really think we'll feel it once the movie comes out. I think it'l... MARK SNYDER Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen... GEORGE ORWELL What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred... MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - ... GEORGE STRAIT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost. VERONICA ROTH It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of sh... ADAM CLAYTON There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than ... EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am... DONATELLA VERSACE I am here again, in a familiar place feeling something I've felt before, wondering why it's still he... JAN DENISE I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. ... LIONEL MESSI I don't think it's too hard to work hard in the classroom and in sports and pass all of your classes... AMY HAMILTON I like to experiment with stuff. Sometimes I mess up and sometimes it comes out pretty good. DON ROSS If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it can just ... UNKNOWN Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away. RICHARD BACH I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, i... SABRINA CARPENTER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... He was really out of it but he was lobbying to be put back in. He always looks a little crazy so som... ANDY KENNEDY Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who... KEVIN GARNETT You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to re... PAT CONROY Sometimes even the closest of families has a little squabble, a little disagreement about exactly ho... TRENT LOTT Something different is always exciting. But when it comes down to it, it's still football. We've got... KOLE MCKAMEY It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before JANE AUSTEN Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you. KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN That was key. I wasn't sure if we could stop them at that point. It was a big turnover. Sometimes th... JASON TROUSDALE With big guys, sometimes it take a a little bit longer. Not everybody comes in a Shaquille O'Neal an... BRIAN HILL When you see people happy and content with so little after they've lost so much, who can still find ... KAREN KAYSER We knew that sooner or later our shots would start falling. Sometimes kids get frustrated. It was go... LOU PALKOVICS If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up ... OLASOT Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I d... JOHN STEINBECK I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... You Catholic girls start much too lateBut sooner or later it comes down to fateI might as well be th... BILLY JOEL The best thing about TIME is that you can't waste it before it comes ANONYMOUS What is it?' Stephanie whispered. 'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.' She... DEREK LANDY Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's sup... STEPHEN KING How you greet your morning is like a boomerang. It always comes back to you. Remember this. STAN JACOBS Any time someone achieves success before they've earned it, it always comes back to haunt them. RON WHITE It was a close pitch. (Thome) spit on it, it may have been a little low, but it's borderline. But st... A.J. BURNETT Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life,... JESSICA BRODY Color comes to life when you add a little love. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching... YOENIS CESPEDES Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes fro... VANCE JOY The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always ... DON BERRY Sometimes it comes out violently and sometimes it oozes out like a tube of toothpaste. And that's wh... PETER CERVELLI You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, ev... BERNIE MAC Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside. ... Everyone has to find it for th... CANDACE BUSHNELL Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for them... CANDACE BUSHNELL It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke! FRED ARMISEN We're not isolated when it comes to that. What's disturbing with a little more of these cases recent... LT. TOD DAHLE Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO To find that things are never what they seem no matter what way you look at it is an eye opener inde... GARY F EVANS... If someone comes and champions it, then maybe it will come back up. But I don't see that happening. LARRY KEATING The U.S. dollar might grind a little higher as the United States comes back from a long weekend. But... GREG GIBBS I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I'... EVE ENSLER Tomorrow is always coming but never arrives. It arrives when it comes. Please use it wisely, because... THE INSPIRATIONIST It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible. ROALD DAHL
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