John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"Power must never be trusted without a check."
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Checks
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Naomi Campbell
Model
"You better check your lipstick before you come and talk to me."
Richard Pryor
Comedian, Actor
"If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Follow your heart, but check it with your head."
Cole Porter
Composer
"I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top."
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"People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph."
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"I pay these niggas with a reality check."
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"Success is when the checks don’t bounce."
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"SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!"
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"We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'"
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"Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced."
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"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
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"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."
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"Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in."
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"There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again."
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"Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush"
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"I've never been one to check for what the next person is doing. My circumstances and my mind have set me apart and I will never blend in."
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"Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control."
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
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"What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'"
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"But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes."
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"That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician."
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"You know it's ART, when the check clears."
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"If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have."
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"Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation."
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