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• I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Hands, Tomatoes, Truthful

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Dallas Willard warns us too of the "cost of non-discipleship." We may be able to live with some pain, but when our whole self becomes more and more rotten, the cost is far greater than dealing with the problem as soon as possible. This is why I think following Jesus, though challenging, is much easier than following anything else. The world has nothing better to offer me. Jesus has come to right my wrongs and to make me refreshingly new.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Pain, Thinking

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• Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

  Pete Wentz

  Girl, Hurt, Fall

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• Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Nice, Heart, Self

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.39, Grove Press

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• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

  Langston Hughes

  Running, Dream, Sweet

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

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• I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

  William Saroyan

  Laughing, People, Upset

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

  Sara Shepard

  Summer, Perfect, Looks

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• Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Quilts, Feet, Hands

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• We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Silence, Catholic, World

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• [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Yesterday, New Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. 1848 - 1855”

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• Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Flower, Book

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.202, Penguin UK

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• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

  Gary Burghoff

  Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Baby, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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• The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Buddhist, Moving

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• Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Kids, Eggs, Personality

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• In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

  Jeanne Calment

  Life, People, Inspire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Religion, Fables

  "The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies".

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• War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  War, Nice, Dirty

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• I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

  Tobias Smollett

  Ideas, Water, Body

  Tobias Smollett (1809). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker”

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• What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

  Alice Munro

  Eye, Turkeys, Eggs

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• Empty vessels make the most sound.

  John Lydgate

  Wise, Wisdom, Empty Vessels

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• We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.

  Herb Kelleher

  Attitude, Dna, People

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• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.

  Wendell Phillips

  Hands, Yesterday, People

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• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Successful, Men, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Deceit

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