People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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JAMES FREY I’m like Chuck Norris without the ass kicking.
FVZZBALL Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Her dancing was unbelievable. She was kicking ass out there.
JULIE MORRIS Riley Blackthorne - kicking hell's ass one demon at a time.
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BRAD AUSMUS It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husban...
TAMAR BRAXTON Life has a way of kicking you in the ass... or smearing chocolate on your bum.
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you to have a h...
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PAT RILEY There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the perform...
LEO ORNSTEIN Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
YANCY BUTLER I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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YANCY BUTLER My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,...
YANCY BUTLER Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
YANCY BUTLER To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
YANCY BUTLER Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from t...
YANCY BUTLER A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
YANCY BUTLER I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
YANCY BUTLER I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
YANCY BUTLER Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
YANCY BUTLER My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
YANCY BUTLER Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are tell...
YANCY BUTLER My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
YANCY BUTLER I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
YANCY BUTLER I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
YANCY BUTLER My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats...
YANCY BUTLER One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.
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ORLANDO MCGUIRE I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with B...
GAVIN DEGRAW Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.
ICE-T Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
JOHN W. GARDNER Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL It's his heart and soul, it's kicking ass all over the world and becoming a huge brand. He would be ...
CHARLES WOLF By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associa...
DUKE ELLINGTON Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
WELSH PROVERB Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
WENDELL L. WILLKIE People are either silly asses, or ass*oles. Mostly, just silly ass*oles. Choose! Hard place, or hell...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
DADA VASWANI The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
CALVIN TRILLIN The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receivi...
RACHEL VINCENT I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I belie...
AUDREY TAUTOU Some people are kind of dumb about it and it's just right there on their page. Some people have pict...
BRIDGETTE SMITH Lawton's numbers showed she was by far the most consistent team out there. Aside from her miscues at...
DALLAS BITTLE Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative peop...
ROY BENNETT Jesus.” Blake rubbed his throat. “You have anger management problems. Its like a disease.”
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT With the new rules, there are a lot of people crashing the net. They just kind of kept coming at me.
DAN CLOUTIER I think everyone can associate with one type of dog or another. To me, Spice is perfect.
JANET WHITE By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to ass...
DUKE ELLINGTON What do you mean, is that it? I just saved his career and the CIA from ruin and he calls me a perfid...
MISTY EVANS Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
CALVIN TRILLIN People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
SHIRLEY MANSON The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food.
MATT AUSTIN What happens is you do not associate the sound with that. But you associate it with the shape of the...
JOE KETNER He isn't allowed to associate with any people with felony records. We presented evidence he was asso...
BRENDAN CONWAY I feel very positive that if Butler County chooses to adopt a city, that will enable us to have a di...
DON RYAN Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
BOOKER WASHINGTON We're really kicking it up a notch. It's really cool. It's kind of been transformed.
BRANDEE BRYANT I've just kind of gotten a little more confidence with each at bat, and the coaches are working with...
JENNIFER BIGBEE You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact...
HARRY DEAN STANTON Well if that's the kind of pride you're talking about, you can bet your ass, I'm going to mess with ...
TITE KUBO She told me the [Butler School] had been torn down.
LARRY MELMAN I've been getting a little down knowing that teams weren't kicking the ball to me. It was taking som...
DEVIN HESTER People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
MARILYN MANSON I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
SALLI RICHARDSON When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know...
RACHEL STEVENS For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that t...
MARK HADDON I try to take people on some kind of journey during the show and people seem glad to travel with me....
COLIN HAY Some of the guys we kept is a direct reflection of what they do for me in the kicking game, as it pr...
DARRIN SIMMONS Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
JULIE ANDREWS An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
FRED A. ALLEN An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
FRED ALLEN It's been one of the biggest things that this museum has ever done. Most people with some kind of kn...
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SAMUEL BUTLER The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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SAMUEL BUTLER It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER