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• My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

  Cindy Margolis

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Years

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• Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

  Rocky Marciano

  Boxing, Guy, Waltz

  "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Ego, Mind

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.

  Kiana Tom

  Years, Together, Cameras

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• I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

  Ringo Starr

  Guitar, Practice, Play

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

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• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  Florence Welch

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Axes, Ice, Snow

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• Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

  David Schwimmer

  Karma, Feel Good, Benefits

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, World

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.262, Perfection Learning

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• It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

  Meryl Streep

  Reality, Earth, Wells

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• I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

  Aimee Mullins

  Home, Night, Paper

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• Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

  John Motson

  Running, Brazil

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• I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Home, Night, Light

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  Ian Mcewan

  Running, Two, Savages

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

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• In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Troubled Relationship, Littles, Complicated Relationship

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• If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.

  Ronda Rousey

  Dream, Home, Fighting

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• Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Silence, Feelings, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.92, Booklassic

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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Women, Infancy Is

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fashion, War, Eye

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• The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

  Vera Wang

  Athlete, Years, Important

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• I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

  Camilo Villegas

  Decision, Special, Finals

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• A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

  Mark Twain

  Leadership, Time, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Travel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Inspiration, Humor, People

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• Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

  James Thurber

  Travel, Airplane, Men

  James Thurber (1956). “Further fables for our time”

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