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«May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either impeach him or get off his back»
«I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, ''They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.»
«There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.»
«The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.»
«And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: / And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.»
«People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.»
«Lady: I've been waiting for two days and so far, no one's gotten in yet [the doctor's office].Samantha: I was once told I wouldnt' be able to get backstage to see Mick Jagger. Well I did get backstage...and I blew him. [Silence] Excuse me... I don't know if this is an appropriate question to ask...Lady: I think we passed appropriate a few seconds ago. Samantha: What kind of cancer do you have?Lady: Breast. Samantha: Breast! Me too. I'm curious...Do you have children?Lady: I'm a nun. Samantha: You have none. Lady: No, no, no...I AM a nun. But that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy your Mick Jagger story. Samantha: I thought that nuns had to wear...Lady: Oh, I haven't worn a habbit in years. Samantha: So then...you don't have sex? Lady: No. Samantha: Never had sex?Lady: No. Samantha: Ohh. [thoughtful silence] Just one more. Lady: Go right ahead. Samantha: Are you allowed to masturbate?Lady: [thinking] I never asked. But thanks for getting my mind off cancer for the first time in a week. Samantha: Happy to help.»
Author: Sex and the City
(TV series)
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«The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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arm, dollars, etc., etc, every other, leg, losing, loss, noticed, pass off, quietly
«It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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accent, accents, approbation, earned, oath, oft, pass off, sharply, swagger, swaggering, twang, twanged, twangs