People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.


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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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I’m like Chuck Norris without the ass kicking.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Her dancing was unbelievable. She was kicking ass out there.
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Riley Blackthorne - kicking hell's ass one demon at a time.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's ass, all day today.
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We literally got outworked in every zone. It was a clear, simple, good ass kicking.
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They associate people with a handout.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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I'll try anything once.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
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Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are tell...
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My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
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One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.
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Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.
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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
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Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
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DUKE ELLINGTON
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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People are either silly asses, or ass*oles. Mostly, just silly ass*oles. Choose! Hard place, or hell...
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
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The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receivi...
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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...
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Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
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People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
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The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food.
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He isn't allowed to associate with any people with felony records. We presented evidence he was asso...
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I feel very positive that if Butler County chooses to adopt a city, that will enable us to have a di...
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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We're really kicking it up a notch. It's really cool. It's kind of been transformed.
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I've just kind of gotten a little more confidence with each at bat, and the coaches are working with...
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She told me the [Butler School] had been torn down.
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People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know...
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For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that t...
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Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
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For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
SAMUEL BUTLER
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole stor...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
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