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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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Florenz Ziegfeld
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All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
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When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.
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Steve Yzerman
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The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
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Herman Wouk
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I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
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Roy Wood
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I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
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Jonny Wilkinson
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My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
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Margaret Walker
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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A. Vogt
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My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
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Tony Visconti
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I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.
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Skeet Ulrich
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Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
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Thomas Tusser
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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Anthony Trollope
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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J. Tolkien
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Randall Terry
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People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
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Audrey Tautou
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For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
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Erich Stroheim
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We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.
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Henry Stimson
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With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.
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Payne Stewart
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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Sophocles
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Sophocles
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If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.
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Lisa Snowdon
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I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
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Frank Shorter
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Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
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Ted Shackelford
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I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.
Author:
Jon Secada
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An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
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Diane Sawyer
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Saint Sales
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We're just moving along as quick as possible.
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Mark Russell
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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Ja Rule
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Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
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Juan Ruiz
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It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
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Johnny Rotten
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The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.
Author:
Marty Robbins
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.
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Martha Reeves
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.
Author:
Rodrigo Rato
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A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
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James Randi
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The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
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Ernie Pyle
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
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Victoria Pratt
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The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy.
Author:
Nelson Piquet
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But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.
Author:
Robert Patterson
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Ovid
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If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.
Author:
Dudley North
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When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.
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Kathy Najimy
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I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.
Author:
Sunny Murray
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
Author:
Earl Monroe
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A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
Author:
Michael Medved
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We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.
Author:
John McHugh
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But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.
Author:
Tim McGraw
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The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.
Author:
Sterling Marlin
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We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
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Wellington Mara
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The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.
Author:
Nigel Mansell
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
Author:
Ted Kulongoski
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
Author:
Aaron Klug
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I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.
Author:
Jewel Kilcher
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Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'
Author:
Craig Kilborn
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A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
Author:
Moira Kelly
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Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
Author:
Elia Kazan
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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
Author:
Kelly Jones
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
Author:
Wyclef Jean
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Author:
Calamity Jane
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Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!
Author:
Steve Irwin
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In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.
Author:
David Houston
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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Author:
Horace
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter.
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Larry Holmes
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We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.
Author:
Geoffrey Holder
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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Author:
Jim Henson
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I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
Author:
Joseph Haydn
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Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.
Author:
Marv Harshman
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This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
Author:
Daryl Hall
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I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.
Author:
Justin Guarini
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
Author:
John Grierson
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
Author:
Matt Gonzalez
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Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Author:
Daniel Goleman
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He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Author:
Haile Gebrselassie
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In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
Author:
Haile Gebrselassie
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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Author:
Bill Gates
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That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
Author:
Peter Garrett
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
Author:
Malcolm Fraser
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It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.
Author:
Robbie Fowler
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I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick.
Author:
Lita Ford
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
Author:
Fernando Flores
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A million years went by quick.
Author:
Carlton Fisk
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Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.
Author:
Mike Figgis
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.
Author:
Rio Ferdinand
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Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
Author:
Bobby Farrelly
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Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
Author:
Dennis Farina
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He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
Author:
Nick Faldo
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
Author:
Brian Eno
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I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.
Author:
Shannon Elizabeth
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Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
Author:
Christopher Eccleston
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
Author:
Edsger Dijkstra
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There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
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Thomas Dewar
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Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.
Author:
George Custer
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
Author:
Hansie Cronje
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But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
Author:
Cindy Crawford
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
Author:
Doug Coupland
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
Author:
Diane Cilento
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The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
Author:
Jimmy Chamberlin
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
Author:
Pat Cash
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
Author:
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
Author:
Malcolm Campbell
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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Author:
Julius Caesar
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It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
Author:
David Byrne
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It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
Author:
George Bush
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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
Author:
George Bush
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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
Author:
George Burns
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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
Author:
Paul Bryant
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I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.
Author:
Frank Bruno
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A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.
Author:
Bruce Boxleitner
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Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
Author:
Julian Bond
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This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
Author:
Marsha Blackburn
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
Author:
Buffalo Bill
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Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
Author:
Howard Berman
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Author:
Max Beerbohm
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
Author:
Martha Beck
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Author:
Francis Beaumont
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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
Author:
James Barrie
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Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
Author:
Edward Barnard
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I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
Author:
Roy Ayers
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Author:
Jane Austen
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Author:
Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Author:
Aristotle
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Author:
Fiona Apple
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There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.
Author:
Phil Anselmo
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You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.
Author:
Jean Alesi
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I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
Author:
Ben Affleck
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
Author:
Aeschylus
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I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
Author:
Don Adams