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• It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

  Jonathan Stroud

  Mother, Sweet, Littles

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• My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

  Richelle Mead

  Vampire Academy, Cigarette, Shows

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.444, Penguin

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• We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moon, Men, Talking

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.220, Penguin

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• Nathanial can show me how to better control the change, but even so, you never have to worry about me turning into a cat again. Didn't you know, I'm allergic to cats.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Worry, Allergic

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• And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play "you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine.

  Simone Elkeles

  Flirting, Play, Mind

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Rules of Attraction”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Husband, Devil, Acting

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• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Action

  1850 Representative Men,'Goethe'.

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• I never thought I'd have to give you-a former Sunday School teacher-a lecture on ethics." "Former Sunday School teachers don't go around without their underwear." "You show me where it says that in the Bible.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Teacher, School, Sunday

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• Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ideas, Humanity, Honor

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• Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Leadership, Life And Love

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• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  Naomi Campbell

  Real, Capes, Saint

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• Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Spiritual, Men

  1967 Tales of Ordinary Madness,'Too Sensitive'.

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• I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

  Mary J. Blige

  Forgiving, Praying, Shows

  "Regal and Real: Mary J. Blige". Interview with Kevin Sessums, la-confidential-magazine.com. February 19, 2013.

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• Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Leadership, Wisdom, Scouting

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• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Hero, Writing

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

  Michael J. Fox

  Kids, Shows, Wanted

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• Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He'd have to – you wouldn't grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Kindness, Hate, Men

  "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society".

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• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

  Malcolm X

  Hope, Greed, Political

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• Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

  Sandy Koufax

  Guy, Pitching, Loser

  "Late Innings". Book by Roger Angell, 1977.

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• Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

  Erica Jong

  Witty, Powerful, Women

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Open Road Media

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• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Horse, Food, Journey

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dog, Pain, Portraits

  Quoted in Mrs Piozzi Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786).

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• Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Heart, Simple

  "The 10 most intriguing people of 2009" by Jay Kernis, www.cnn.com. 2009.

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• Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Black And White, Men

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• Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Dream, Let Me, Shows

  Elizabeth Lowell (2006). “Fire and Rain”

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