The damn thing is layered like a frozen onion.


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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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I didn't know a damn thing about style.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
SAYED KASHUA
It is not true that is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
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My wallet is like an onion, opening it makes me cry.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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They're frozen. Like Ruth is.
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You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off layer by layer and sometimes you cry.
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My hands are frozen, my feet are frozen. I've never played in cold like this.
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All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
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You keep this damn thing going.
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This doesn't have a damn thing to do with the school system.
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I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.
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Life is a lot like skateboarding.
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.
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But that damn thing followed us here.
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The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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Ain't a damn thing you can do but hope it don't rain.
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Life is an onion and one peels it crying
FRENCH PROVERB
I'm sorry to say we're doing the same damn thing again,
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Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
That's great, but it doesn't mean a damn thing to me right now.
MATT GIBSON
That's what makes it such a layered, textured show.
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It is a barren, frozen wasteland
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I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do ...
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
PROVERB
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
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The only thing I can do is fight. Win or lose, I'm here every damn time.
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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I'm like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it'll make you cry.
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Life is a re-discovery.
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It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
Give even an onion graciously
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A lot of the stuff is frozen to the ground.
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Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.
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This is the unpeeling of the onion. His campaign should be prepared for it.
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The first thought is often the best. - Bishop Joseph Butler,
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself ...
JOSEPH CONRAD
I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past yea...
JOSEPH CONRAD
In sissy times, like these, one
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later,...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- descr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD
To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX
He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX
Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
JOSEPH PARKER
All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN
Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his ow...
JOSEPH FARRELL