Top 100 Sought Out Quotes

#1. To sought out solace within yourself is the most difficult challenge and is quickly ignored by many, thus can only be achieved when you find truth within oneself

Yolanda De Iuliis

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#2. I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

Marisa Tomei

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#3. At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

Keith Ferrazzi

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#4. As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Mason Cooley

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#5. Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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#6. As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and terror, grotesque and maniacal. These films calmed me and made me feel more connected in my experiences.

Tony Burgess

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#7. I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Huston Smith

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#8. Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

C.D. Wright

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#9. You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

Michael Ealy

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#10. One of those unfortunate women who did not find nice men interesting. She found undesirables desirable. She sought out unpleasant boyfriends, then complained about them as though the government had allocated them to her.

Carrie Fisher

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#11. Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

Robert Kennedy

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#12. We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

John Woolman

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#13. No matter what you do, don't stop doing it. Don't let anyone push you down, just keep pushing until you find what you sought out.

Myself

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#14. Certain kinds of information are like smoke: they work their way into people's eyes and minds whether sought out or not, and with no regard to personal preference.

Haruki Murakami

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#15. I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.

Grant Evans

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#16. I have never had a goal, I have sought out no result. I think that there cannot be, in general just as well as for ourselves, neither goal nor result. Everything isn't without meaning - the word slightly puts me off- but without necessity.

Emil Cioran

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#17. I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

Harrison Ford

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#18. I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

Jamie Cullum

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#19. Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Paul Celan

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#20. Are you sought out at parties?
No. Sorted out sometimes, and then slung out.

Ray Galton & Alan Simpson

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#21. Often you cannot wait for inspiration - it needs to be sought out.

Dean F. Wilson

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#22. Alone. It was such an insignificant word. Or it had been for centuries. He'd sought out the solitude, had slept away centuries in his cave without hesitation. And now? Now he hated the quiet.
He detested being alone.

Donna Grant

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#23. The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

Barack Obama

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#24. It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.

Will Ferrell

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#25. Whenever he could, he sought out a new road to travel

Paulo Coelho

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#26. Whatever their neurological and molecular antecedents, hallucinations feel real. They are sought out in many cultures and considered a sign of spiritual enlightenment.

Carl Sagan

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#27. After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

Paloma Picasso

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#28. You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

Salman Rushdie

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#29. Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

George Herbert

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#30. To "seek inspiration" has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For

Alexander Pushkin

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#31. If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

Sylvester Stallone

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#32. Once I sought out a celebrated ethnologist, and amused him with peculiar questions regarding the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God; but soon perceiving that he was hopelessly conventional, I did not press my inquiries.

H.P. Lovecraft

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#33. From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.

Joseph Bruchac

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#34. My grief sought out all parts of my body it hadn't yet inhabited, and I felt like I might collapse in on myself right there, at last, spectacularly

John Darnielle

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#35. If I represent the pinnacle of family success for all the Jason Dessens, Jason2 represents the professional and creative apex. We're opposite poles of the same man, and I suppose it isn't a coincidence that Jason2 sought out my life from the infinite possibilities available. Though

Blake Crouch

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#36. Although I wasn't there to bear witness, I imagine Lot's wife scanned the masses for her children. Perhaps she sought out the curves of their mouths and the shapes of their faces, trying to memorize her children, grown now. She looked back as I and any strong, loving mother would have done.

Brenda Sutton Rose

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#37. I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

Evangeline Lilly

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#38. In 1968, when an actress made it to star status, she automatically rejected all roles that called for nudity. But Fonda broke with convention; she was a major actress who sought out roles that required her to disrobe.

Danny Peary

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#39. It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

Bill Shuster

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#40. I turned in his arms, blindly, gladly. God. All I'd ever wanted was someone to keep me. To want me, even knowing my faults. Like everything I'd ever sought out myself, with peeling paint and uneven edges and a tendency to fall apart. All I'd ever wanted was to be loved. I

Skye Warren

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#41. Even Gods have sought out gurus for themselves.

Santosh Kalwar

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#42. I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.

Willy Ronis

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#43. This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#44. I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Nell Newman

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#45. Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

Garry Kasparov

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#46. Happy, beautiful people have no need of God. It is only when people are debased by degeneracy of the mind or body that they consciously seek me out. And I desire to be sought out. Worshiped. For

Nicole Cushing

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#47. I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

Frederick Lenz

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#48. I've never really sought out publicity.

Dennis Quaid

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#49. Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

Chantal Kreviazuk

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#50. Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#51. They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.

John Landis

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#52. How, I wondered, was one meant to live without killing, when killing sought one out at every turn? The world made its monsters indeed.

Charlotte McConaghy

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#53. It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.

Louis Thomas McFadden

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#54. I have sought you out to cure me.'
'To cure you of what?'
'Of this cursed affliction.'
'I cannot cure stupidity.'
Scapegrace frowned.

Derek Landy

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#55. Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities.

Timothy Keller

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#56. He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.

Mervyn Peake

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#57. Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants.

Saul Gorn

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#58. A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms.

John Dryden

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#59. His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

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#60. I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

Peter Dinklage

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#61. When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.

Kahlil Gibran

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#62. Some people will punish you merely for witnessing their weakness. Even if they sought you out and asked for help. Even if you helped. Especially if you helped.

Sarah Manguso

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#63. People spend years of sixty-, seventy-, eighty-hour weeks building their base of knowledge and experience before going out into practice on their own - whether they are doctors or professors or lawyers or engineers. They have sought to perfect themselves.

Atul Gawande

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#64. The producers had seen "In a World ... " and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].

Lake Bell

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#65. He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

Charles Spurgeon

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#66. I hated this love that I had for my family - love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.
I now realize that it was not love but an unhealthy attachment, born out of a need for security and a sense of duty.

Indu Muralidharan

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#67. Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason ... But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.

William Of Conches

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#68. For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

Rufus Wainwright

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#69. As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. He

Clifford D. Simak

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#70. I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

Mark Twight

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#71. Active prospecting let's people know that they matter; that you've sought them out.

Diane Helbig

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#72. And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#73. Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

Marshall McLuhan

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#74. He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars.

Victor Hugo

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#75. He loved me ... He loved me so much he sought me out at the risk of being attacked. He was in danger this whole time, with every step. In fact, the wound in his side, the wound on his shoulder ... came as a result of him trying to find me.

Koushun Takami

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#76. I've wanted to seek out new destinations and new adventures. I've sought an escape from the world in which I was raised. Now I can't help but long for the place I've tried so hard to leave.

Kevin C. Mills

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#77. I think, in many ways, certain people sought me out maybe because they liked my body language or they liked the way I wore a slit skirt, the way I cross my legs or carry my purse. It's quite inspiring to play the seduction card.

Carine Roitfeld

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#78. How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.

Michel De Montaigne

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#79. I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life ... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

Willy Ronis

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#80. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise.

Joseph Heller

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#81. I loved not yet, yet I loved to love, and out of a deep-seated want, I hated myself for wanting not. I sought what I might love, in love with loving, and safety I hated, and a way without snares.

Augustine Of Hippo

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#82. If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

Mary Lyon

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#83. Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

Ted Rall

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#84. Both males took a deep breath. And then Wrath put his hand on top of Xcor's head, as if in benediction. Looking up, the King sought Layla out with his blind eyes. "You should be proud of your male. This is no small thing for a warrior." She brushed at her eyes. "Yes." Wrath

J.R. Ward

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#85. Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

Kingsley Amis

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#86. Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

Charles Spurgeon

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#87. It's really very simple. You sought me out. That's the biggest reason.

Haruki Murakami

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#88. They sought to take the unfairness out of existence, to remove the mistakes in the transmitted message of life which gave it any point or advancement ...

Iain M. Banks

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#89. Hannah sought God's heart, and He "remembered her." He hears your prayers too. He cares about your struggles. He cares about your relationships. He loves you and wants you to pour out your soul to Him. When you call on the name of Jesus, all things are possible.

Gwen Smith

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#90. One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

Garth Risk Hallberg

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#91. I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

Hal Newhouser

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#92. There are queer things, evil things, out yonder, and there are bones of white men bleaching in the sun who have sought to know too much. Curiosity doesn't pay yonder.

("The Great White Moth")

Frederick Merrick White

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#93. Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.

Ben Hecht

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#94. Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

Barney Frank

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#95. Heal me? You're trying to heal me by rubbing your ... by rubbing against me?" Kat didn't even try to keep the skepticism out of her voice. "Yeah, right.

Evangeline Anderson

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#96. Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

Jamie Wyeth

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#97. He considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence.

Alain De Botton

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#98. I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

Bonnie Tyler

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#99. I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

Virginia Heffernan

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#100. It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

Lucy Stone

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