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Elizabeth David

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COLIN POWELL Don't let them win. Don't let them beat you. Don't let them steal your magic.
BROM I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
EMMA ROBERTS If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.
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MATTHEW DESMOND Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
PAUL ENGLE I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a k...
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LYDIA DAVIS I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doin...
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DIANA GABALDON I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.
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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
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JACK L. CHALKER Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
AARON NEVILLE I don't like myself without a beard.
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ELISHA CUTHBERT I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly beca...
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BRETT HOEBEL You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
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MARK UDALL Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.
NORAH JONES The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I t...
ELLEN PAGE You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
KAREN KINGSBURY I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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MO IBRAHIM I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.
STEVE WYNN You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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MICHAEL JORDAN I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out...
IRIS APFEL I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I...
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LEE SCOTT I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
PAT NIXON I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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DEYTH BANGER I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.
JOHN MAYER You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone w...
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DEAN KAMEN Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of thi...
J. R. SMITH I don't order laws, I propose them.
HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA I don't have ulcers; I give them.
HARRY COHN I don't ever want to be perfect,
Cause I'm a singer that you
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ED SHEERAN I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I...
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CARLA BRUNI I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.
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M. WARD Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
JENNIFER ANISTON Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
NANCY PELOSI If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
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GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
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JOHN GOULD If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for th...
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MARIAN MCPARTLAND Without passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
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LAURIE ANDERSON We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.
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DAVID L. WOLPER Cats don't like change without their consent.
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ELIZABETH BOWEN Don
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
ELIZABETH FULLER The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
ELIZABETH JANEWAY I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from co...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
ELIZABETH HARRISON Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all w...
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found ...
ELIZABETH DUNPHY For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL