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• Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck-you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.

  Chalene Johnson

  Pain, Athlete, Good Luck

  Chalene Johnson (2017). “PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.368, Rodale

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• I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'

  Jeff Dunham

  Answers, Osama Bin Laden, Dummy

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.

  Michael Rapaport

  Kids, Littles, Size

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

  Neil Young

  Truth, Hands, Land

  Song: Thrasher, Album: Rust Never Sleeps

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• I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Ideas, Essentials, Packing

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• I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.

  Brad Goreski

  Instance

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• I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humorous

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• It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

  Tom Waits

  Travel, Night, Flames

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.

  Michael Schumacher

  Father, Believe, Support

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• Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Lying, Truth Is, Knows

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.256, Penguin

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• Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

  Richard Powers

  Two, Fit

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• Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

  Michael Bond

  Labels, Looks, Littles

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• See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

  Luther Vandross

  Song, Writing, Records

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• I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

  Mamie Gummer

  Paris, Capes, Cape Cod

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.

  Bill Goldberg

  Morning, Night, Cities

  "Interview: Goldberg". www.askmen.com.

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• My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

  Stana Katic

  Two, People, Parent

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• Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Truth, Lying, Knowing

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• No one has ever put anything into my suitcase.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." "That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said.

  Michael Chabon

  Dog, Heart, Black

  "Wonder Boys". Book by Michael Chabon, March 14, 1995.

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• After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Son, Two, Disappointing

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.99, Penguin

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• With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must’ve looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. “How’s it going?” I said. “I’ll take the stairs.” He hurried off.

  Rick Riordan

  Dirty, Kids, Eye

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• He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Keys, Wife, Wheels

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• The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

  John Updike

  Golf, Swings, Trying

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.124, Random House

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• To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it came to really new ideas or inventions. A common joke of the time [mid 1940s] said that the Russians could not surreptitiously introduce nuclear bombs in suitcases into the United States because they had not yet been able to perfect a suitcase.

  Herbert York

  Science, Moon, Russia

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• I’ve always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you’re traveling from movie set to movie set. So I’ve never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen.

  Krysten Ritter

  Cities, Long, Three

  "Krysten Ritter and The Number 23". Interview with Ned Hepburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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