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• Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M

  Isaac Marion

  Philosophy, Brain, Too Much

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• Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

  E. L. James

  Hero, Long, Expectations

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• Sometimes I wonder if all my friends are insane.

  Tom Angleberger

  Insane, Sometimes, Wonder

  Tom Angleberger (2012). “The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Origami Yoda #3)”, p.173, Abrams

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• Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

  Tamora Pierce

  Punishment, Trying, Mouths

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler
  About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
  Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
  My boss says, no dice, son, you gotta work late
  Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
  'cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

  Eddie Cochran

  Summer, Baby, Son

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• Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

  Dodie Smith

  Cows, Topaz, Patient

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.83, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

  Diablo Cody

  Children, Writing, Two

  "Diablo Cody on the Challenge of Directing While Raising a Toddler, and Women in Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

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• Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 33), 1963.

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• I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Thinking, Two

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• Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Hands, Talent

  Willa Cather (1967). “The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896”, p.408, U of Nebraska Press

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• Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly. But I don't really have a schedule now that's very challenging. I make the calls and I call the shots, so I feel reasonably centered. Sometimes, I wonder whether or not it's even necessary to do concerts and stuff.

  Robert Plant

  Moving, Challenges, Schedules

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't leaving being musician because I use to like it when noone came to see me playing, because I didn't feel any pressure. I can enjoy myself and probably play better. Sometimes when I play, people expect something of me, and I'm not always able to to that. Quite often. So I get totaly nervous

  Allan Holdsworth

  Play, People, Leaving

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• My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.

  Victoria Chang

  Writing, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person

  Jodie Foster

  Acting, Sometimes, Wonder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

  Rob Payne

  Choices, World, Administration

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

  Mitt Romney

  Greatness, Usa, America

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• Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

  Barack Obama

  Psychics, Desire, Income

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Ideas, Effort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I wonder what my grandfather would think of what I do, he spent his whole life in the kebab business, was buried with all his equipment, probably turning in his grave.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Prayer, Swings

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1989). “The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952”

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• Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.

  Debra Granik

  People, Brain, Curiosity

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Way, Mail

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jan 02, 2012

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• It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

  Heather Brewer

  Missing, Sometimes, Wonder

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.130, Penguin

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• Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives.

  Michael Leunig

  Lying, Heart, Media

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• Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

  Brian Bosworth

  Football, Thinking, Boots

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