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• There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sunday, Looks, Wipe

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  I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.

  Kevin Gates

  People, Goes On, Inspired

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• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Shadow, Wipe

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• ~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~

  Katie Couric

  Mom, Art, Educational

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• The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Cells, Water

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• The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

  Gore Vidal

  Real, Oysters

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 02, 2012

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• The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work.

  Janet Frame

  Fall, Writing, Ego

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• I find that I have done a pretty good job of fusing all three of them so far and I intend to get better at my craft. This is the reason why I am always eager to learn new stuff, especially from those who are more experienced than me. I am like a sponge. My ultimate goal is to open an animation studio in St. Lucia.

  St. Lucia

  Jobs, Goal, Get Better

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• If you're gay, you're gay. It's my Dennis Miller theory of homosexuality shot through the movie "Boy and the Dolphin." If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching the movie "Boy and a Dolphin" and a 27-year-old Sofia Loren crawls up out of the Aegean Sea after sponge diving, she's standing there in the deck of the boat in a see-through gauze top, rivulets of water dripping off her torso onto the deck of the boat. If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching that and you still want to make it with the captain of the boat, you're gay. You can't fight that. So it is what it is.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Gay, Fighting, Boys

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

  Mark Parker

  Curiosity, Looks, Assumption

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• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Children, Analysis, Way

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• His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Cat, Tongue, Smooth

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• For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sadness, Bad Day, Closing Up

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• Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

  Simon Cowell

  Hard Work, Criticism, Patient

  "Simon Cowell: From Idol to Inventor". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.bloomberg.com. February 1, 2006.

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• I don't see myself as successful because I've worked on only a handful of films. The way I look at it, if you're really, really lucky, if you consistently work hard over the course of ten years, if you refuse to take no for an answer, if you surround yourself with great mentors and are a sponge, willing to learn, then you're bound for something to happen.

  Haley Bennett

  Hard Work, Successful, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Photography, Hard Work, Athlete

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.

  Kellan Lutz

  People, Mind, Age

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• Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

  Adrian Lyne

  Directors, Here And There, Stuff

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• Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

  Eminem

  Iowa, Internet

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• Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

  Bill Bryson

  Cells, Together, Way

  "A Short History of Nearly Everything". Book by Bill Bryson, 2003.

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• Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Blessed, Actors, Lessons

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• I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

  Martha Stewart

  Opportunity, Ideas, Looks

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• Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Children, Smell, Littles

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• No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

  Mike Nichols

  Beer, Agreement, Skills

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• If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Voice, Towels, Parenthood

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