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Sam Snead

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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
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FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
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CAROLE GEITHNER Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
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JULIE BUNTIN And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
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SARAH J. MAAS He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
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ADAM SILVERA It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou...
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M.M. KAYE The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
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LEWIS BLACK Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...
ARTHUR MILLER Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
JAMIE OLIVER Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
BARBARA CASTLE It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved?...
HOWARD JACOBSON I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w...
JOHN SCALZI The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. ...
PLEASEFINDTHIS The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring...
ARUNDHATI ROY ...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to ...
FANNIE FLAGG Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork.
MIKE HUCKABEE Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the p...
ALBERT CAMUS When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differe...
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J.K. ROWLING Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces betw...
KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that th...
CHAD PELLEY A thief stops stealing when he dies
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SARAH J. MAAS The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
ROB LIANO They are on a hunger strike because they want a hearing in court with a lawyer of their own. They ar...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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SAM SNEAD Golf is played with the arms.
SAM SNEAD Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the n...
SAM SNEAD Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
SAM SNEAD The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
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SAM SNEAD Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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SAM SNEAD The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
SAM SNEAD These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
SAM SNEAD Forget your opponents; always play against par.
SAM SNEAD Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
SAM SNEAD The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back fr...
SAM SNEAD Practice puts brains in your muscles.
SAM SNEAD You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.
SAM SNEAD The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.
SAM SNEAD The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.
SAM SNEAD Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease.
SAM SNEAD The greens are harder than a whore's heart.
SAM SNEAD Then I'll be back here when I'm 68.
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SAM Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
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SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
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SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
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SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
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SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired.
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SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
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SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized.
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SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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SAM HUNTINGTON I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w...
SAM HUNTINGTON I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ...
SAM HUNTINGTON I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di...
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