Vernon Jordan
Lawyer
"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."
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Careful
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like."
Agnes Martin
Artist
"I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate."
Dave Chappelle
Comedian, Actor, Writer
"You got to be careful of the company you keep."
Yoko Ono
Artist, Musician, Activist
"Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do."
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"Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement."
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"Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise."
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"Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful."
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"Before beginning, plan carefully."
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"I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either."
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"One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do."
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"I am careful with my material and presentation."
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"So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere."
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"I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful."
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"You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever."
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"Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate."
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"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."
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"I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything."
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."
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"You have to be very careful with who you do business. It's like a marriage. Do your research and check references."
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"It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth."
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"Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful."
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"Be careful! Never show your superiors that you are superior to them."
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"In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism."
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"We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom."
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