General Semantics Quotes

#1. I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

Al Yankovic

#2. Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

Tatjana Soli

#3. Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

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#4. I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

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#6. The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

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#7. Use your talents.
Do your best.
Achieve your goals.
Fulfill your purpose.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Arthur Golden

#9. You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.

George Soros

#10. They say quitters never win

Fall Out Boy

#11. I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Julius Caesar

#12. In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Imelda May

#13. He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics.

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#14. The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

Ben Shapiro

#15. The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

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#16. There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself.

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#17. Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.

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#18. What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.

Sepp Blatter

#19. Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#20. It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

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#21. Ambition' is 'greed' rebranded.

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#22. Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

Alfred Korzybski

#23. Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.

Yasmin Mogahed

#24. Once it arrives, erotic sex cannot be chased or grasped at, for it shows itself when you're not looking.

Alexandra Katehakis

#25. Touch her," he said in Scott's ear, his voice low and threatening, "and it'll be the biggest regret of your life.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#26. Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

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