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• Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women. I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy. ... I'm like that guy on the Odd Couple, and it's not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry.

  Rick Majerus

  Couple, Guy, Pieces

  Rick Majerus, Gene Wojciechowski (2000). “My Life On a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin' Utes”, Hyperion

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• The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.

  William Cobbett

  Smart, Land, People

  William Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1853). “Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively”, p.53

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• It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

  Bill Gosper

  Stories, Newton, Life Story

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• Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stories, Deep Within, Accurate

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• Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Nice, Essence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dirty, Swans, White

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• Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams

  Compton Mackenzie

  Beer, Two, Doe

  Sir Compton Mackenzie (1950). “Tight Little Island”

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• Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Lonely, Hurt, Tired

  Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Real, Made

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.1222, Penguin

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• In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

  Donald A. Norman

  Real, Nice, University Professors

  Donald A. Norman (2013). “The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.141, Basic Books

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• Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Fashion, Should Have, Needs

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• Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Vanity, Curiosity, Doubt

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• I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

  Jay Johnstone

  Baseball, Marine, Shoes

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• Not that I say,"Oh,I'm not going to associate with certain people.," but I have my world,and I only want to be around people who I feel stimulated by. I have to be honest I do have a new quest: I want to meet more vegetarians,people who are more like minded. There's something real neat about that feeling. It makes you feel so settled to know there's somebody else sitting right there,being so passionate about what I'm passionate about. I don't want to be around selfish people. I try to keep myself surrounded by deep people who will move me.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Selfish, Real, Moving

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• History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Dust, Patterns, Refuge

  Melvyn Bragg (2013). “The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language”, p.51, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!

  Shane Smith

  Design, Calculators, Greenhouses

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• I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.

  Leah Remini

  Dirty, Mind, Relax

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

  Jim Allchin

  Running, Distinction, Operating Systems

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• That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar

  Tom Araya

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

  John Welwood

  Letting Go, Nice, Inspiration

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• When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

  Cary Grant

  People, Looks, Young

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Clean

  "Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives".

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• Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mother, Clever, Important

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• When the tea is brought at five o'clock
  And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
  The little black cat with bright green eyes
  Is suddenly purring there.

  Harold Monro

  Cat, Eye, Poetry

  Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"

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• I think that Mormonism as a whole has been misunderstood. So, I think, it's neat that people just get to learn a little bit more about what our faith is about and what we believe in.

  Carmen Rasmusen

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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