"Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating."
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"I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian."
"I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important."
"This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely."
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
"We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible."
"Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me."
"Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love."
"Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do."
"Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition."
"If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating."
"That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors."
"All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love."
"Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare."
"I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird."
"Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating."
"Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong."
"It's rumored that Arnold Schwarzenegger's son is cheating on his girlfriend Miley Cyrus. After hearing about it Arnold said, 'That's my boy.'"
"I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the day, anybody who has a record and puts out a record that's basically the same song 13 times over on one record; to me they're just cheating the fans."
"A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around."