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• People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

  David Letterman

  Inspirational, Two, People

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• I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?

  Queen Latifah

  Jersey, Minutes, Call Me

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• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, News, Demand

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'd definitely pose nude again. No qualms. I actually had my breasts done again. Just updated, like new tires.

  Jessica Hahn

  Qualms About, Done, Breasts

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• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Long, Favors, Pay

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Mother, Hard Work, Being A Mother

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• If its got tires or testicles it's going to give you trouble

  P. C. Cast

  Giving, Trouble, Testicles

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• I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Thinking, Action, Admirer

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fake People, Echoes, Coquette

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• Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.

  Travis Barker

  Morning, Eggs, Healthy

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• God.
  Twice I speak it.
  I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? "Your job is to..." And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

  Markus Zusak

  Jobs, Thinking, Names

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, learning.blogs.nytimes.com. 2005.

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• ..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Loneliness, Believe, Boys

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Moon, Shoes

  Stephen King (2016). “The Long Walk”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.

  Hilary Mantel

  Attitude, Thinking, Trying

  Hilary Mantel (2013). “Three-Book Edition: A Place of Greater Safety; Beyond Black; The Giant O’Brien”, p.147, HarperCollins UK

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• Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

  Neal Stephenson

  Song, Two, Bamboo

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sad, People, Special

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jan 16, 2017

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Country, Dog, Book

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.253, Vintage

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• Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

  Amy Carmichael

  Disappointment, Passion, Fire

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• I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Car

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• Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Song, Pain, Swings

  Song: Life Is Just A Tire Swing, Album: A1A, 1974

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• From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sea, Broken, Gold

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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• Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Philosophy, Rose, Toil

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• What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.

  Julian Barnes

  Self, Curiosity, Doe

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

  Agatha Christie

  Character, Individuality, Everyday

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