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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
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Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful… — Alexander Elder Copy Share Image
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Every player goes through streaks where they're just not making their shots. It may last two games, it may last ten games,… — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So,… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off… — Josh Smith Copy Share Image
Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Hang on, Pa, don't reach for yer shotgun just yet," I said, grinning over the protective streak I found funny, when there… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
As for the work ethic, I'm just the kind of guy who takes what he does seriously. I never missed a day… — Dolph Schayes Copy Share Image
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak,… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and… — Karen Cushman Copy Share Image
The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
I'm very pleased with all of our guys. We had the one good game offensively in Cleveland. We just need that one… — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism;… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
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Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires Their balmy odors, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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![“I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.” quote by Johnny Depp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07c/johnny-depp-658_destructive_i-think-alice-cooper-probably-on-some-le_1598223.jpg)
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