Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.
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RUPERT SANDERS Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past ...
DAVE GROHL Sometimes, I don't even want to put on makeup. And sometimes, I feel so unattractive and blah.
LIL' KIM If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
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SARAH HYLAND Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
T. C. BOYLE Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.
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GABRIEL IGLESIAS You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge,...
DALE EARNHARDT If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
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PEE WEE REESE Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
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CHARLES SUMNER How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB