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• And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Thinking, Self, Apples

  "Strange Angels (Strange Angels, Book 1)". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, May 14, 2009.

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• Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

  Dennis Wilson

  Running, Baby, Fighting

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• When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

  Caitlin Moran

  Husband, Feminist, Cooking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!

  Lady Gaga

  Fire, Chicago, Today

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Aug 03, 2015

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• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  Hal Boyle

  Baby, Grandma, Golf

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• Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

  Dana Scott

  Education, Learning, School

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• Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Garden, Rocks, Wicked

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• The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.

  Confucius

  Men, Office, Mind

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• The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.

  John C. Dvorak

  Deterioration, Matter, Busy

  "The Wikification of Knowledge". www.pcmag.com. July 11, 2005.

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• I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

  Rex Stout

  Busy, Being Myself, Bother

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• I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Worry

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• Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Inspirational, People, Use

  "Observations". Book by Katharine Whitehorn, 1970.

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• And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

  Katie Couric

  Jobs, Thinking, Worry

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• How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Busy, Awareness

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  No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, Busy, Bad Things

  Twitter post from May 15, 2013

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Art, Responsibility

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Saws, Busy

  Stephen R. Covey (1993). “How to succeed with people”, Deseret Book Co

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• A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

  Lauryn Hill

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Interview with Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cancer, Weather, Space

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• I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

  Winston Churchill

  Worry, Busy

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• I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Live Life, Thinking, People

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• A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

  Malcolm X

  Wall, Hate, Singing

  "Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

  Shirley Bassey

  Energy, Busy, Performances

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• If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.

  Jase Robertson

  Ducks, Busy, Fishes

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• And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Notebook, Dad, Father

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