Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say ‘these are my things, nobody else can touch them.’
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Related My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are lo... TOM BRADLEY Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER Some things are so real you can feel them to your core. It doesn't matter where you go, they go with... JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Both of those two have had a good spring. When you see things on film that they do wrong, they try t... JAMIE BRYANT So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove t... WALLY LAMB No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don'... FRANK ROBINSON My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you... EARL NIGHTINGALE We are careful not to touch the NGO people, though, because we can see that even though they are giv... NOVIOLET BULAWAYO What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. MARGARET MEAD The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if th... PETER HELLER Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever ... THOMAS JEFFERSON Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to ... DAVE EGGERS They have some explosive guys who are tough, experienced. They have shown they can win anywhere, any... TOMMY AMAKER You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY We need to help get them stable. Mentally, they have been through a lot, a lot of stuff. We've got t... KATHLEEN BROWN Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't ... MICHAEL ENDE They value what has come to them from prior generations. They value the handiwork, making things the... JULIA OLIN There are just some things that dogs can do that humans can't. The one missing child they find or th... OFFICER RALPH REMY One cause of anxiety and stress is when things that need to be done start to pile up over one anothe... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on th... L. FRANK BAUM "Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on t... L. FRANK BAUM You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything ... AL FRANKEN When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things ... KAREN BLIXEN It's really fun to work with these people. They have a strong can-do attitude. When they have moment... GREG MOYER One of the best things you can do in a situation like this is to show them a lot of kindness. They a... AL LEWIS When people have lost a child, knowing somebody else has been where they are now and knows how dark ... JEFF KANE These things happen, but you can see them coming before they occur. You can avoid these situations o... SYLVESTER CROOM Thoughts are like things carried by a river. Capture the best while you can, after they have gone, y... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do. ANNA HELD They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. RALPH BAKSHI They say miracles are past. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will... JAMES ROZOFF I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture. MELISSA SAGEMILLER Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote s... IAIN PEARS Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look... KAY ROBERTSON I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no cour... ELTON JOHN There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN Some of these kids are just gamers. They have found this chemistry between them and hopefully, we ca... JOANNE BOYLE They are good at beating you off the dribble. They can get penetration and if you close on them they... JODY PETERS You don't remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do. HOWARD JACOBSON This is a severe hardship on the families right here at school time. These people are economic refug... BOB WOOD I think one of the things the buddies didn't expect was for them (the partners) to do as much as the... MEREDITH BARRETT I think people right now, the age they are, being 21 and 22, really do want to find a group of bands... JOHN MAYER We have so many things in our playbook that if a team thinks they have us scouted out, we'll just th... KANE MOIX But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN They must say exactly what they saw here. In their reports I want them to tell me that they can impr... GIDEON SAM People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness b... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness b... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as... DENNIS MUREN A good coach can be a caring parent, a wise teacher, an exemplary pastor, a passionate friend or a d... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey ... ELIZABETH JANEWAY Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be sat... AKIRA KUROSAWA I am not being an alarmist but these things get really large. They are really intelligent. They can ... TODD CAMPBELL I am not being an alarmist but these things get really large, ... They are really intelligent. They ... TODD CAMPBELL One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about t... HANYA YANAGIHARA Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge ... TOBY STEPHENS The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just... LEMONY SNICKET Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without... MOHSIN HAMID Jealousy is a serious disease, that reflects who people are when others are achieving great things. ... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOSS In the U.S., there are a lot of things they can do if they feel they're being picked on, but in Chin... JARED PETERSON I think people are nonplus about some of the TV advertising. They want to see if candidates are real... JACK HILL People want to get back to the source. The old school. They want things they can touch. HARI KUNZRU I think most of them just consider it an irritation. We've got students who will rack up $400 or $50... CASEY RICHARDSON Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me thin... JULIA STILES You have to think it was by design, that they didn't want to go on a flight with the chance of the p... DAVE ESSER It's really good because I can teach them some of the things I know, and hopefully they can do some ... CODY JENKINS We try to be pretty reasonably priced to keep things where students can afford it. They only have so... NAVARRETE ASHFORD Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to hav... EUGENE DELACROIX They have very good athletes on their team, ... They have some kids who can really run the ball. We'... DAVE MOORE A lot of them are people who may have been runners, but their knees are giving out, so their doctor ... DAVE ROGERS It's a tour that probably nobody else can say they played on except for Bart Bryant. TAG RIDINGS The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. An... DELILAH Everyone has a lot of confidence. The one thing I've noticed is that they really have good chemistry... LAURA CAMPBELL People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is wh... NOEL COWARD She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends."<... TOREY L. HAYDEN A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve... THOMAS JEFFERSON Even if someone doesn't have birth or health records we enroll them, ... Everybody is doing everythi... BOB HAYES I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost fe... BENNY GREEN Unfortunately, when we run out of room, some of the sentimental items without monetary value, (such ... LEE BAERLOCHER Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... DEYTH BANGER They are spoiled ? that's not a bad word. They want not to be stuck in traffic. They can go anywhere... WAYNE DALTRY Rather than putting solar modules on individual residences where they wouldn't get much notice, we w... JACK BRAUTIGAM And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help some of the b... KYLE ADAMS Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio... JOE QUEENAN They are a rough team. They are physical and fast. But I think we can keep up with them. ALLIE WOODS They have people who are predisposed to criminal activity. They take them to the nicest neighborhood... CHRIS COFFEY People are on the go so much more these days. People aren't home as much as they used to be. They wa... MARK TEPE There are people whose suffering makes them take their mind off other things in life; so focused are... LATIKA TEOTIA Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: ... MICHELLE PAVER I do like the Nigerian purchase because it was at good value to them, but they need to demonstrate t... ADRIAN JACKSON I think there’s a point in everyone’s life where they realize that despite their best efforts, t... TESSA CLARE One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes. MIGUEL Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. ... JAMES THURBER Lots of things can teach you lots of things you didn't expect them to, but they don't, because you e... DEYON ANTEKO PITTER
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MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are... R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the... R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But... R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something... R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That... R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz... R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because... R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo... R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,... R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated.... R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein... R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot... R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp... R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me. R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu... R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou... R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm... R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives. R. SHANNON Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille... R. VENNING It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. R. PALMER Life is too short to learn German. R. PORSON If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru... R. FOREMAN Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. R. DRABEK Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ... R. TURNBULL We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. R. SOUTHWELL The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men. R. POCOCK When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my... R. KOHELET Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill... R. VENNING Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines. R. STEVENS 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's... R. KELLY If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it. R. KELLY In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears ar... FRIDA R. I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in... R. KELLY People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you withou... R. KELLY My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ... R. KELLY When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ... R. KELLY