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Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be… — Albert Hadley
Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally… — Karen McDougal
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless… — Scott Fahlman
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are… — William McDonough
Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out… — Robert Stack
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
If you're doing Plyometrics you can jump higher and run faster and your heart and lungs are going to kick the panties off of anybody… — Tony Horton
Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words. — Hans Rookmaaker
Literature for meâ€¦ tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories,… — Geoff Ryman
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most… — William Faulkner
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase… — Lawrence Durrell
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers. — Ernestine Rose
Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But… — Peter Viereck
If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation… — Joel Spolsky
A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business. — Vivian Vande Velde
I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass… — Robert Goolrick
When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third… — Lilian Katz
While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spiritâ€¦Â Once she hears the cries of… — Valerie Estelle Frankel
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours. — Jude Morgan

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