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Maybe I'll live my whole life just getting by. Maybe I'll be discovered; maybe I'll be colonized. You could try to train me like a pet, you could try to teach me to behave, I'll tell you that I haven't learned it yet, I ain't gonna sit, I ain't gonna


Ani Difranco

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SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO you really think im happy what just because i smile haha thats a joke is the devil good just because...
AMBER FAITH HUN I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shuttin...
GABY HOFFMANN You gave me money you could ill afford. You did everything in the world possible except move to Ohio...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY I could be whatever you want. you just tell me what you want and I'm gonna be that for you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON It would be ill of me to comment on a letter that I haven't seen.
TONY SANCHEZ I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell
ROBERT BURNS try and kick me while im down ill break ur leg
LIL WAYNE Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others
GERMAN PROVERB Every time you feel like mocking a person you disagree with politically by implying that they are me...
ARIEL HOWLAND ill treat you like a princess not because you deserve it but because every time i look at you its wh...
PEDRO MAGALHAES Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON I grow closer to you every day love you more and more but I'm scared that when i don't have you ill ...
NICKOLI LEE ALLEN D'AVANZO I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.
COLIN BAKER I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whether you are healthy or ill, your thoughts can drive you. If you are feeling ill, it may be your ...
LAURA MONCUR Olivia. Your marriage wont last. Tell Noah the truth; be fair. when you do, come find me, and ill gi...
TARRYN FISHER It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
AESCHYLUS You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The crowd's gonna be against me. Maybe I can do something to get some people with me.
SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA Maybe your Gonna be the One that Saves me.
OASIS I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER I hope you weren't looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised e...
LEIGH BARDUGO Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just...
JEWEL Never Tell Me Your Gonna Try To Do Something, To Me, Try Is Another Word For Fail & I Will Not Let Y...
NICHOLAS EDWARD GARDNER It's not mild, but dangerous. If you have EEE, you are very ill and know you are very ill. The dange...
BELA MATYAS The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You wo...
NANCY RAWLES Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or,...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".
SPIKE MILLIGAN I hate the way ill always love you
LINDSEY MARCUM I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody as...
JOAN DIDION I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
APRIL WINCHELL Who made you God to say ill take your life from you
JAMES HETFIELD This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY You can fall ill with just a memory.
PAOLO GIORDANO Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - ...
STEPHEN KING I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn yo...
NEIL KINNOCK When I used to protest against the ill treatment they beat me on my back.
ISMA MAHMOOD Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day y...
JASPER FFORDE If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
RUMI I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and ill-thought-on of you; gone between ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never speak ill against someone else. You can't know what life holds for you. The ill you speak agai...
BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. You are ill, correct? The warmth and shivering had no other particular cause, did it?"
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MADELINE HUNTER I think it is ill-advised and illogical. This to me is decidedly unhelpful.
GREGG LIEN Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour ...
CHARLES FILLMORE I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
SAMUEL BUTLER This is a loss we could ill afford,
CHARLES RYAN You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC I think it was ill-timed, I think it was ill-conceived and I think it was a matter of poor judgment,
CHANNEL FOUR Ill seed, ill weed
FRENCH PROVERB Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to u...
GREG NORMAN I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
ADAM CAROLLA Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.
GEORGE HERBERT My mom taught me how to love, my dad taught me how to be a man.You put them together, and ill be you...
LUIS ARIEL ROMERO JR. It makes me wonder how I’d be treated if I were like everyone else. Maybe I’m a pretty rotten pe...
JODI PICOULT If you look like your passport picture you're too ill to travel.
WILL KOMMEN If you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.
JOE PASQUALE The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends...
VINCENT VAN GOGH So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do...
STACIA KANE If you know your ill-intentions, I resist your unhealthy-actions.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA That was big. Last year I remember he hit three in a game where (Garner) was ill. ... Maybe I should...
CECIL COOPER Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight
Why am I trying to see, when there aint n...
TUPAC SHAKUR Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
GEORGE HERBERT I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal,...
DAVE EGGERS I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
EDWIN EDWARDS Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in the...
STEVEN MAGEE You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
NATALIA GINZBURG I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
GEORGE HERBERT What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but t...
GENE WILDER You said that you are ill... but from from what?
DEYTH BANGER If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
AFRICAN PROVERB I kept my whole life in suitcase,
Never really stayed in one place,
Maybe that's the way ...
SHINEDOWN Every ill man hath his ill day.
GEORGE HERBERT A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI Dream: I look for
 Lama Lodrö Kagyu
 teacher friend
 hearing
he's ill &a...
MARC OLMSTED Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as...
STEPHEN FRY I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do somet...
MEGAN FOX Real recognize real and if you real ill speak to you and if i speak to you i fucks with you true shi...
JANEA BROWN Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
MASON COOLEY I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still survivin...
CARRIE FISHER Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.
PROVERB Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
GEORGE HERBERT There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
GEORGE HERBERT But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The man who does ill must suffer ill.
AESCHYLUS A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.
RAVI SHANKAR I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl...
SAMUEL BUTLER You try to make the best of everything, and then you just break down and you cry. Tonight, we're gon...
JOHN DYER I told them I was ill
SPIKE MILLIGAN It is better to be completely ignorant than to be ill taught.
VIKRANT PARSAI Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

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