When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family.
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THOMAS BECKET My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks.... ISAIAH THOMAS The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ... THOMAS BERNHARD Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ... THOMAS FRANK It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supp... CLARENCE THOMAS The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. THOMAS FULLER I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal i... DEBI THOMAS Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas... THOMAS BROOKS #4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o... THOMAS BROOKS Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u... THOMAS FRIEDMAN Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. THOMAS MANN The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one hundred twenty three degree’s, caus... THOMAS FERREOLUS I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I... THOMAS KAIL My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en... THOMAS RHETT Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi... THOMAS WOLFE To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. THOMAS TRAHERNE We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a... THOMAS SZASZ The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi... THOMAS JEFFERSON The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde... THOMAS JEFFERSON When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery. THOMAS JEFFERSON The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre... THOMAS JEFFERSON A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve... THOMAS JEFFERSON With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat... THOMAS JEFFERSON The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta... THOMAS JEFFERSON The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode... THOMAS JEFFERSON If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let... THOMAS JEFFERSON But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, i... THOMAS JEFFERSON If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by ... THOMAS JEFFERSON We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p... THOMAS JEFFERSON A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you ca... THOMAS JEFFERSON