“ If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Thou wear a lion's hide! Doff it for shame,And hang a calfskin on those recreant limbs. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time. ”
- Gordon England- Copy
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“ The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different. ”
- Rick Pitino- Copy
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“ The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. ”
- H. Brooke- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
- 713
“ One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
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“ If I were pitching it in Hollywood,... I'd say it's 'The Out-of-Towners' with a brain transplant. ”
- Bruce Campbell- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I fear we are not getting rid of God, because we still believe in grammar. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 90
“ Very superstitious, wash your face and hands,Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong,You don't wanna save me, sad is my song. ”
- Stevie Wonder- Copy
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“ Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ”
- Octavia Butler- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back? ”
- William Moulton Marston- Copy
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“ Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
- 2.2K
“ War can only be abolished through war... in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. ”
- Mao Zedong- Copy
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“ I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it. ”
- J.D. Salinger- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, and each withdraws from and repels its brother. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You taught me language; and my profit on'tIs, I know how to curse. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
- 759
“ I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. ”
- George Wallace- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. ”
- Huey Newton- Copy
- 1.1K
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