Top 100 Adjusted Quotes

#1. We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it.

Astro Teller

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#2. Naturally, Cinder got some on her gown - a smear of yellow frosting on the enormous skirt. She was mortified until Iko adjusted the skirt so the folds would hide it. "It was inevitable," Iko said with a wink. "It's part of your charm." Cinder

Marissa Meyer

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#3. I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

Shia Labeouf

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#4. I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm ... and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

Elizabeth Edwards

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#5. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can't be good at everything.

Kelly Williams Brown

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#6. Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any value He liked-are in fact very precised adjusted, or fine-tuned, to produce the only kind of Universe that makes our existence possible.

Arthur C. Clarke

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#7. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

Vince Lombardi

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#8. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Jean Kerr

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#9. She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

Elizabeth Edwards

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#10. In the growth option, any gain is adjusted in the NAV and money continues to be invested until redeemed.

Jigar Patel

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#11. There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Tim Heidecker

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#12. Mostly I was just plain freaked. Not mentally tottering, I think a human mind that's moderately well-adjusted can absorb a lot of strangeness before it actually totters, but freaked, yes.

Stephen King

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#13. No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

Sue Grafton

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#14. Even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

Stephen King

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#15. I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.

Jackie French

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#16. We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has 'adjusted everywhere'.

Dada Bhagwan

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#17. We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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#18. Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

Robert Reich

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#19. Hunt immediately adjusted his hold, bracing her easily. "I thought you looked pale," he remarked, gently stroking back a lock of hair that had fallen over her damp face. "What's the matter, sweetheart? Is it just your stomach, or do you hurt somewhere else?

Lisa Kleypas

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#20. Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who's anyone in children's literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes don't go on hero quests.

Lynn Messina

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#21. I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

James Ellroy

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#22. I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

Alan Ball

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#23. I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#24. in nearly three decades, these lower-income workers saw no meaningful gain in what they were paid for an hour of labor. Their overall inflation-adjusted income rose a bit, but mainly because they put in more hours of work.

Anonymous

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#25. Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

Angela Carter

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#26. Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#27. He adjusted his body in relation to hers. His head angled down, his hand forming a canopy between them to shield her face from the sun. It was a useless gesture. only silence. The sunlight on her hair

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#28. I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

Riccardo Tisci

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#29. Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.

Andrzej Stasiuk

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#30. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

Andrew Mellon

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#31. I cried because nineteen years of living could leave behind no more lasting memorial than a few carefully adjusted impressions of a character in a handful of mortal minds.

Valerie Fitzgerald

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#32. I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.

Jan Morris

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#33. I snuggled deep into the covers,adjusted my pillow until it was just right, then lay down until my head rested on Reyes's shoulder.

Darynda Jones

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#34. Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

Gottfried Keller

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#35. Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.

Joel Henry Hildebrand

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#36. I was so far beyond simple fatigue that I was beginning to feel nicely adjusted to the idea of permanent hysteria.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#37. I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

Adam Driver

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#38. In the end they worked out that Angus must have sneaked into Naomi's love parlor before his trouser snake addendums were, you know ... adjusted. Super-Cat!!! He is without doubt the 007 of the cat world.

Louise Rennison

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#39. Figures must be adjusted downwards to take account of the cost of living, which has risen by a factor of nearly seven in my lifetime.

Niall Ferguson

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#40. It turns out that having a best friend during adolescence is an important part of becoming a well-adjusted adult. Those without one are more likely to be bullied and marginalized and to carry these experiences into becoming disagreeable adults.

Daniel J. Levitin

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#41. If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.

Alexander Hamilton

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#42. I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.

Andrea Gibson

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#43. Usually when I buy clothes off the rack, I need to have them adjusted.

Kim Kardashian

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#44. Naked I felt as if my soul was exposed, my thoughts could be read. In the mask I felt protected. I eased the elastic strap over my head, adjusted the fascia to my cheekbones and glanced again at the mirror. The acid in my tummy had gone. Masked I am me. Masked I can do anything.

Chloe Thurlow

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#45. Don't feel bad - if your iPod is full of music made by nice, well-adjusted people, it's probably also full of terrible, boring music.

Anonymous

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#46. I do believe that it takes a strong dose of alienation to make a good artist or writer in the modern world. You can't be too well-adjusted and still have anything interesting to say.

Howard Sounes

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#47. If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

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#48. In the quarter century between 1979 and 2005, average after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) grew by $900 a year for the bottom fifth of American households, by $8,700 a year for the middle fifth, and by $745,000 a year for the top 1 percent of households.

Robert D. Putnam

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#49. Anger's a requirement for the job. The only reason anybody decides to become and organiser. Well adjusted people find more relaxing work

Barack Obama

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#50. I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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#51. Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Akio Morita

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#52. Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

Malcolm Bradbury

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#53. Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

Dennis Bergkamp

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#54. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

Aldous Huxley

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#55. What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

Abraham Maslow

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#56. I know now, from experience, that the path to joy winds through this dark valley. I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity.

Donald Miller

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#57. Minds were running along similar lines. Will adjusted

John Flanagan

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#58. propped up a little as her eyes adjusted. She hardly ever got to watch Roarke sleep. Most of the time he rose before she did. And sleep for her tended to be wandering in lucid, often disturbing dreams,

J.D. Robb

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#59. I haven't entirely adjusted to the whole yum, blood, yum aspect of being a vampire. My body wants it, but my head is still like, Ew, that is BLOOD, time to faint.

Tamara Summers

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#60. It's very interesting that most of the roles I've gotten are grim, when I'm actually a very well-adjusted man and had a happy upbringing. I guess there are some dark shadows somewhere in there, but I'm a big kid.

Tony Todd

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#61. Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.

Uday Kotak

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#62. They have adjusted their style in order to worship with their kids. Shouldn't we be willing to adjust ours to reach their kids?

Andy Stanley

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#63. I'm sorry about your dad. He was a good man. He adjusted his position again so she was neatly blocked against the wall.

Liliana Hart

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#64. We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.

Bernie Siegel

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#65. This was the second time in less than forty-eight hours that a man stopped fondling me because his phone rang. And both times it was because someone had been killed. If I wasn't a well-adjusted, emotionally healthy person I might be bothered by this.

Janet Evanovich

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#66. I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Douglas Coupland

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#67. Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.

George Bergman

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#68. I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

Henry Rollins

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#69. It's hard to think of you as a Margaret. Maizy suits you."
"I doubt I'd answer to anything else." Maizy smiled as she adjusted the cloth.

Mary Connealy

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#70. I have an incredibly supportive husband and family and an incredibly well-adjusted daughter.

Bree Turner

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#71. Krishna Murti: It is no sign of good mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society.

Charlene Diane Jones

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#72. In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

Jimenez Lai

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#73. I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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#74. In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty ...

Robert M. Pirsig

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#75. I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Sara Zarr

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#76. So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.

Cornel West

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#77. He had put them [his family] first by coming home [to India] and the irony was that they had put him first by arranging this marriage. He had walked into it with his eyes open. But his eyes had been open too long in the West and by the time he adjusted his vision to India, it was too late.

Anne Cherian

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#78. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.

Michelle Anthony

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#79. It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - KRISHNAMURTI

Ethan Nichtern

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#80. Geez, woman, you're gonna dislocate my jaw."
"Well, don't do that in public, you brute!"
"Wow." Renfield adjusted his glasses. He was sitting across the table from them with a book. "I feel so privileged, being an audience to this-"
"Shut up, Ren," the other two said simultaneously.

Lia Habel

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#81. Having made his clerical toilet with due care in the morning, he was prepared only for those amenities of life which were suited to the well-adjusted stiff cravat of the period, and to a mind weighted with unpublished matter.

George Eliot

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#82. Adjusted for inflation, the median income is now less than it was when President Obama took office, and less than it was when President Bush took office before him.

Anonymous

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#83. The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

Eric Hoffer

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#84. The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.

Martina Mcbride

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#85. I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

Natalie Maines

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#86. There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups.

Sophie Hannah

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#87. Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

Robert Reich

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#88. The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.

James Clerk Maxwell

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#89. A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

Hermann Hesse

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#90. Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

R.D. Laing

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#91. I had never had a big opinion for myself. I had always thought I'd be a fuck up, that I'd be disappointed like always by life and people. But at this very moment, I knew it. I wasn't a good man, not well-adjusted. - Nolan

Stephanie Witter

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#92. The sun has adjusted its structure so that nuclear power is generated in the core, and diffuses outward, at just the rate needed to balance the heat lost from the surface-heat that is the basis for life on Earth.

Martin J. Rees

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#93. If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

Ray Dalio

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#94. I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

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#95. I know those kinds of lenses, said Tuppence. By the time you've adjusted the shutter and stopped down and calculated the exposure and kept your eye on the spirit level, your brain gives out and you yearn for the simple browning.

Agatha Christie

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#96. We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

Tina Fey

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#97. America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.

Jeff Greene

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#98. There was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.

Andrea Mitchell

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#99. I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

Ed Helms

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#100. Did you kick me?" Matt asked, blinking slowly while his eyes adjusted.

"I tapped you with my boot, if I'd have kicked you, you'd be on your ass right now.

Jaime Reese

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