I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
Edith Sitwell
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Im not running away. Im already gone.
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KAMI GARCIA Im very nurturing.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
LEWIS CARROLL Im still runnin against the wind
Well Im older now and still
Against the wind
BOB SEGER Okay.
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CHRIS SHIPLEY Im trending therefore I am.
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ANDREW LOCHART Im not your biggest girly girl.
MAGGIE SIFF Think about visual IM (instant messaging).
RON GARRIQUES Im in the state of Imbroglio
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J.D. SALINGER Im still betting on you. - Cinna.
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ED GOLOD Never felt lyk im alone bcoz my soul always follows me dats wat make me feel im not alone & I"ll nev...
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ARTEMUS WARD Today my mouth is bigger than my heart.
Sorry seems to be the hardest word.
But, I'm sorry. I Love Y...
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SELENA GóMEZ We do not have federated IM. We firmly believe you need a separate channel from any public IM system...
BOB SHIMP Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.
KIERRA C.T. BANKS Im finally glad to see this move forward,
JIM RICE Beware the Asian Bear!!
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CHRIS CHRISTIANSEN Im a trackstar running thru life, chasing my dream.
50 CENT revolver under my bed as im pouring liquor out
NOBLE DA GENIUS Life is Like a Piano,, and Im Playing Beethoven...
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NICK Thank god im not too cool for the safebelt.
KANYE WEST I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactl...
NIKKI ROWE dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
KURT COBAIN Hail! Thou as victor crowned.
[Ger., Heil dir im Siegerkranz.]
B.G. SCHUMACHER Hackers have discovered IM; it's the new playground for them.
ANDREW LOCHART You'll never find another like me because im the original.
RACHEL W Gerechtigkeit gibt es in der Hölle. Im Himmel herrscht Gnade.
JULI ZEH Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.
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ART GILLILAND Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
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TOM EID You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!
JASON MRAZ Im a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl
BJORK try and kick me while im down ill break ur leg
LIL WAYNE Im on a roller coaster that only goes up my friend.
JOHN GREEN They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
JODI PICOULT Im Holding onto What i Hope Will Keep You by My side
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NATHAN ELMO MELO Im going to use you and abuse you a distortion of the truth!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER im still waiting
for that kiss when
my leg
[(P o p s)]*
MEGAN »Das Prinzip Moral verstehe ich nicht.«
»Das überrascht mich nicht im geringsten.«
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.
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JUSTIN YOUNG Your words don't match your vibe,
& im trusting my gut this time.
NIKKI ROWE Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn, Im dunklen Laub die Goldorangen glühn.
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CHRIS CORNELL Expect me nigga like you'd expect jesus to come back expect me nigga im coming.
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HEINRICH HEINE Note To Kids: I Never Drunk Alcohol,, Smoked or did Drugs and Im Still Cool..
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JANNA CACHOLA aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr...
RAJA Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
BON SCOTT Im hoping that shell talk after the ride about her experiences and the foundation a bit.
GABRIELLE MURPHY Im for rules but when rules conflicts humanity i will stand against it at all cost
MICHAEL STRONG so what brings you to the doctor today?"
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DEB CALETTI Al Qaida tötete im gesamten Westen, in Amerika und Europa, in den letzten 14 Jahren über 3300 Mens...
JüRGEN TODENHöFER I over analyze situations because Im scared of what may happen if I'm not prepared for it.
TURCOIS OMINEK Im making my own history, so if you're willing to make your own , you would be better prepare yourse...
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NERISSA IRVING I don't know limits, that's why I'am infinite and even when im gone I will still remain Sun
DALADIER My words control your body and your mind like a symbiot
im a phenominon
i had to interpose
NOBLE DA GENIUS i'd rather people hate me for who i am then have them like me for who im not
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MICHAEL JORDAN I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.
IM DONG-HYUN For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
IM DONG-HYUN If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
IM DONG-HYUN I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other amb...
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IM NO JUNG The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove...
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Die das Leben vergänglich zieren!
Wer besitzt, der ...
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EDITH WIDDER I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
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EDITH WIDDER For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio...
EDITH WIDDER I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
EDITH WIDDER It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that...
EDITH WIDDER Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ...
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EDITH WIDDER Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw...
EDITH WIDDER I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
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EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
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EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t...
EDITH HEAD