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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.


William W. Purkey

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LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
SATCHEL PAIGE You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.
AFRICAN PROVERB You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.
ROY CROFT You've got to sing sometimes like you don't need the money. Love sometimes like you'll never get hur...
GLENDA JACKSON Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody'...
SATCHEL PAIGE You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
Y...
RICHARD LEIGH You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You...
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AUTHOR UNKNOWN There is no heaven like mutual love
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unex...
DAVE EGGERS Never try to be like others, cause no one has a heart like you
CHNAR HAWRAMY They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.
SUZANNE COLLINS The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
JAMES BALDWIN The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
JAMES BALDWIN No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best,
REESE WITHERSPOON I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.
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"No. Love is an element."
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LAINI TAYLOR Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
ALAN MOORE Never give up on love. Love like you have never been hurt.
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CRYSTAL WOODS Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Love is like the double edge sword, one can hurt you and the other can hurt the one's you love!
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GOLDEN MASHEGO Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Heaven Hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned
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like you’ve
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left
nev...
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DAVID SEDARIS No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
DIANA VREELAND We needed someone who could play like the devil and sing like heaven.
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W. H. MURRAY Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. MURRAY It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the...
W. H. DAVIES I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-a...
W. H. DAVIES I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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