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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.


David Nicholls

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C.S. LEWIS If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
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MICHAELA D. You're instantaneously unmotivated in the first place because you know you can't do it.
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JOAN CHEN You need to keep hurting
until you realise
you never needed to hurt
in the first p...
KAMAND KOJOURI In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.
GREGORY MAGUIRE The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER There is no better place as better as where God has placed you, be it good or bad, for His better re...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours.
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VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN But God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heav...
C.S. LEWIS The others have made governments of this earth
keep the secret of their existence.
I wou...
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to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
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PETE HAMILL You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage an...
DANIEL CRAIG Don't call yourself a secret
unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHEN If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll f...
TRISHA YEARWOOD Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself.
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R...
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"I...
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TYRONE WILLINGHAM How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves
PROVERB I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.
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"...
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DAVID CASSIDY It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY