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• Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.

  Herb Kelleher

  Texas, People, Trying

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• I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

  David Cunliffe

  Want, Economic, Performances

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• Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wisdom, Pain, Hunting

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• The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Real, Adversity, Heart

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• They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hands, Ideas, People

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• Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
  Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
  Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;
  Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough;
  Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
  Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
  Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
  And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Growing Up, Roots

  Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet XXVI”

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• Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
  Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,
  Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired,
  Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired,
  Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
  And news much older than their ale went round.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Eye, Profound

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Written Expressly for this Edition”, p.100

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• What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

  Gilda Radner

  Life And Death, Car, Drug

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not, you know, depicting half the world's population. I often feel like the gaming audience is so much more diverse than the characters represented in the games that they play.

  Neil Druckmann

  Character, Responsibility, Games

  Source: za.ign.com

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• I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

  Jane Campion

  Piano, People, Way

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• My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

  Ree Drummond

  Children, Jeans, Boots

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• I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Sports, Bed, Watches

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

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• Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Song, Dancer

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• Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.

  Ludacris

  Philosophy, World, This World

  Song: We Got-Feat Chingy I-20 Tity Boi

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• With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

  Jerry O'Connell

  Boxing, Kangaroos

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• A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

  Donal Logue

  Senior, Football, Running

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

  Tamora Pierce

  Age, Stuff, Middle

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• While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter.

  Christie Rampone

  Snacks, Cereal, Trying

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• I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.

  CM Punk

  Kicks

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• I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

  Richard Matheson

  Teacher, Hate, Inspire

  "Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson". Interview with Ed Gorman, Filmfax Magazine, 2004.

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• Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.

  Ilana Mercer

  Mean, Gun, Self

  "Just a girl with a gun; not a gratuitous killer". praag.org. November 25, 2013.

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• Some people in Hollywood think I'm nuts with this bodybuilding stuff. They'll say, 'You're getting too big. You'll hurt your career.' But they don't understandthat high that comes from a workout, the challenge, and the personal victory.

  Joe Piscopo

  Workout, Hurt, Thinking

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• At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Lying, Pistachios

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• With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Kids, Average Joe, People

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