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ERIC SODERHOLM Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.
FRANK SINATRA Inexcusable. It really bothers me.
ALAN TRAMMELL On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.
JIMMY KIMMEL It kind of bothers me about the parks,
TOM SHEPARD It bothers me that the price went up.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Change isn't always for the best.
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KENT BAER If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music prov...
IRIS DEMENT There's no cause and effect. It bothers me that people feel they have to go to jail over this.
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CRISTIANO RONALDO It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
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WALT ALSTON That bothers me way more.
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NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE A colleague of mine said it made him think twice about kissing his wife goodbye in the morning,
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NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I do tell governments we're selling you a Trojan horse,
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been ...
WARREN GILES People spoil their children all the time. Nobody writes newspaper articles about it.
CONNIE WILSON I've been reading about it in the paper. It definitely bothers me a little bit.
CHRIS LEWIS Only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
NICHOLAS SPARKS A dull ax is more dangerous than a sharp one.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS My dearest,
I write this letter by candlelight as you lie sleeping. And though I can't hear th...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS When you're in the hockey hotbed ... everyone is entitled to their opinion. What bothers me is when ...
TIE DOMI How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
NICHOLAS SPARKS It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Don't just say 'I'm picking the place...
CASSIE SCERBO Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I...
FAITH HILL When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was...
KATHRYN HARRISON Please God, let me prove that winning the lottery won't spoil me.
ANONYMOUS It's the location and the manner in which it was done that really bothers me.
LAURA ECKLEBERRY I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's ...
HALSTON SAGE My shoulder bothers me, and my leg,
BOBBY ABREU It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.
WALT ALSTON Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
T.F. HODGE When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what peo...
FAITH HILL A clothes dryer at Star Grooming blew up 10 feet away from me, ... I was so close to the dryer when ...
CLIFF HALL Sponges grow in the ocean. This bothers me. How deep would it be if they didn't?
STEVEN WRIGHT Yes, it bothers me tremendously. I'm not sure how many miners went and was able to live as long as m...
ANN MERIDETH I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.
L.M. MONTGOMERY What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way ...
CAROLE BOUQUET It bothers me that kids who are doing it are not thinking of the lives they're putting in jeopardy,
CINDY DAVIS It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when t...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Finding something like that in a war is like finding an angel in hell so i kept it with me
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BILL BUCKNER What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
ROBERT ORBEN I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to re...
SYLVIA PLATH I don't think it bothers the world that we sin, I think it bothers the world that we act like we don...
MARK HALL Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she wou...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.
PAUL MALLORY Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment
PAUL MALLORY Mr. Sourpuss Pants God I love her Nicholas " Thomas crowed. When he noticed that neither Nicholas no...
LYNSAY SANDS I think [it bothers him] more so in the field than at the plate. It's when he slows down or takes of...
BOB MELVIN It bothers me. Its not a requirement that he (Sanders) discusses any of that before he puts it on th...
DREW GOOLSBY I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It's wh...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when...
BRYAN COGMAN Keep people in your life who light your flame, rotten apple's spoil the rest.
EKOW JONAH People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. -Nicholas Chamford (1741...
NICHOLAS CHAMFORD Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think,...
AUDREY HEPBURN Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think,...
AUDREY HEPBURN She seems to be a very bright woman. I've met her. But she's lost her progressive following because ...
SUSAN SARANDON I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I expre...
ANTON YELCHIN To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It's not near what we consider an epidemic, but it does happen ... each laptop that is stolen bother...
GRANT WILLIAMS If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that cou...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything t...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT m...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
Jamie: Because, he...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I might kiss you.
I might be bad at it.
That's not possible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.
NICHOLAS SPARKS A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never l...
NICHOLAS SPARKS What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can b...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Jamie: You know what I figured out today?
Landon: What?
Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
NICHOLAS SPARKS You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS i'm sorry she never got her miracle.
she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can hap...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it w...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you love me?' I asked her. She smiled. 'Yes.' 'Do you want me to be happy?' as I asked her this I...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfe...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a commo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS No, it's not that. It's not what you're thinking. I was serious when I said 'all of it'. I can remem...
NICHOLAS SPARKS What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
NICHOLAS SPARKS You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch...
NICHOLAS SPARKS An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means tha...
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