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• When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

  Elizabeth Banks

  College, Shoes, Two

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• It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Light, Hands, Ultrasounds

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• Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Hurt, Drug Use, Uprising

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

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• The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

  Quentin Crisp

  Men, Practice, California

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• How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.8, Multnomah

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• I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.

  Kelis

  Fall, Hobbies, Littles

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

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• . . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have an inner side to them, and the more three-dimentional your characters are on screen the more compassion you can open up in an audience . . .. To me, that involves the audience more, it stimulates them and asks more of them.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Character, Compassion, People

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• Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

  Plotinus

  Reality, Men, Voice

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• ...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.

  Edward Forbes

  Believe, Ocean, Deep Water

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.56

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• Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Eye, Bridges

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• History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

  Elias Canetti

  History, Happened, Ifs

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• The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Bird, Understanding

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.178, GENERAL PRESS

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• First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for preserves. The next morning, birds rustled the fruit trees, and later when I twisted a ripe fig loose from its stem, I found it half eaten, the other side already rotting, or-like another I plucked and split open-being taken from the inside: a swarm of insects hollowing it. I'm too late, again, another space emptied by loss. Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Morning, Taken, Loss

  Natasha Trethewey (2007). “Native Guard”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Grief

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.184, Vintage

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• As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.

  Adam Carolla

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

  Margot Asquith

  Stupid, Math, Piano

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• That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

  Euclid

  Fall, Science, Two

  Euclid, Dana Densmore (2002). “Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation”, Green Lion Pr

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• Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Views, Information

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• I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.

  James A. Michener

  Sports, Volleyball, Art

  James A. Michener (2014). “Sports in America”, p.601, Dial Press

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• Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

  Stuart Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

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• Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
  toward himself to recover his inner being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Horizon, Looks

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Always listen to your heart, because even though its on your left side, its always right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Heart, Listen To Your Heart, Left

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• When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, Your Side

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Hurt, Your Side, People

  "Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet". Book by James Mann, March 8, 2004.

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• Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.

  David Lehman

  Hands, Your Side, Ideas

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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