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• He won’t last long, akri. Thanatos is barbecue. And I like my barbecue. Just tell me how you want him, akri, normal recipe or extra crispy. I’m partial to extra crispy myself. They crunch louder when deep-fried. Reminds me, I need some bread crumbs. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Long, Needs, Recipes

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• There was a television show called The Innocents of Hollywood. Brooke Shields is a friend of mine and she saw one of the introductions to it, and she called me and said, "I think you better check this out." And on this show they talked about parents who'd ripped off their kids. One of them said, "My mother stole $300,000 from me as a child." Well, my mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. But god knows what people will say when this movie comes out.

  Laura Dern

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Tired, Thinking

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Grandma, Glasses, Hands

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.263, Penguin

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• An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Autumn, Night

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• Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, Sweet, Waiting

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• He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin. That about summed it up.

  Josh Lanyon

  Oil, Laughing, Gold

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• That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight." "Not if they're growing out of your..." Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Fighting, Growing

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• There's very few people go the extra mile - so go the extra mile and give it all you've got.

  Jim Leishman

  Life, Motivational, People

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• Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

  Alfred Lunt

  Self Esteem, Quality, Charm

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• Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

  Frank Sinatra

  Coffee, Awful, Way

  Song: Coffee Song, The, Album: Ring-a-Ding Ding!

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• All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

  Kanye West

  Music, Song, Responsibility

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• You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Lying, Responsibility

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Believe, Afterlife

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• You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Littles

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• They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

  Tommy Bolt

  Distance, Golf, Clubs

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• Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence.
  They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspiring, Angel, Form

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1993). “Angels and Us”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who allow themselves to be led by the Spirit understand that placing oneself at the service of the Gospel is not an optional extra, because they are aware of the urgency of transmitting this Good News to others...I assure you that the Spirit of Jesus today is inviting you young people to be bearers of the good news of Jesus to your contemporaries.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, People, News

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• You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Want, Entrepreneurship

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• What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?

  Jennifer James

  Children, Optimistic, Views

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

  Gene Spafford

  People, Safety, Cost

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• Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.

  Valerie Wilson Wesley

  Fighting, Blessing, Clouds

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• As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  In R. Lehmann et al. Orion I (1945) p. 25

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• The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

  Seth Shostak

  Success, Failure, Science

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• We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop

  Al Gore

  Past, Atmosphere, Sun

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