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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little


Thomas Aloysius Dorgan

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.
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KATHY GOOD if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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MAZ NO PARADISE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
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PAUL MCCARTNEY People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
MELINA MARCHETTA I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. I rang you over and over again and you would nev...
MELINA MARCHETTA Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT Life is so transient, finite, and fragile that there is no time to hate anyone.
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MARY J. BLIGE I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioni...
CALVIN JOHNSON Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in...
HERMAN MELVILLE I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I...
LOUISE BROWN Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my...
SYLVIA PLATH I have so much more to go through as a young lady. But oh my God. I feel like I can do anything.
BRANDY NORWOOD It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
JOSH BILLINGS It isn't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
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JOHN GREEN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK You can't get rid of fear, you must learn to move through it.

Know that deep in your soul...
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JAMES SO The index is revolving around 16,000 and trying to establish further support at that level.
JAMES SO The whole psychology of the market has changed since the U.S. unemployment figures on Friday. All th...
JAMES SO Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being...
JAMES SO The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that ...
JAMES SO Interest-rate sensitive stocks are doing a bit better today because the core consumer price index da...
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ANTERO NIITTYMAKI When your parents do so much to help get you through college, it's a nice bonus.
PAUL MCCARTNEY So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly,...
LAURENCE STERNE ...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little perfo...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
― LeBron James, Shooting Stars
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UMA SHANKER You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are c...
KELLY RUTHERFORD We were a little stale at the start of the second half and got playing a little too much long ball. ...
TRACEY MORRILL When I was little I didn't like going to practice so much. Now, that is the only thing I want to do ...
BRANDON GOLDMAN The truth is, when you have little to do, you do very little. But when you have much to do, you do m...
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ERIC WINSTON The race is always what's important. Qualifying now is so important. You have so many riders, so clo...
NICKY HAYDEN It's overwhelming. You have this situation where everyone is giving so much support. I have always w...
ERIK WALTERS I'm accustomed to playing a little bit more than I have, so it's been a bit of an adjustment for me....
BRIAN BOUCHER Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, ...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to ...
KEVIN O'LEARY I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up in...
CHERYL RAINFIELD When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek ...
CAT CORA It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
DAN FOGELBERG Do yourself a favor instead of waking up and telling yourself that it's another boring day at work o...
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NEIL OLSSON You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of every...
B.J. NOVAK No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL How it is we have so much information, but know so little?
NOAM CHOMSKY Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anythi...
LAUREN OLIVER She mixes up the ball so much you never really get any rhythm, and finally I got a little more consi...
LINDSAY DAVENPORT We have so little to go on that you can't make an intelligent prognosis,
ARNOLD SCHECTER This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with...
PAUL CASTELLANO You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi...
COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing somethi...
COL. HARLAND SANDERS The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLER When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now...
CHARLES DICKENS It's a tough problem to deal with because you have to go through so many layers.
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MARGOT ROBBIE We're trying to do some things with his delivery that are a little uncomfortable for him. We're tryi...
JOHN CURTIS You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is ...
RAVI ZACHARIAS You have so much media and so many celebrities, some people will do anything to get attention.
GITESH PANDYA I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I do...
BORIS PASTERNAK It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
DAVID O. SELZNICK I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
DAVID A. SIEGEL I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.
ALLAN CARR No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I think you have got to win the game, so you go in with five (bowlers),
DENNIS LILLEE What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of m...
CATE BLANCHETT never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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THOMAS GRAY Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON