Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible."
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Choke
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Octavia Butler
Author, Novelist
"When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema."
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"If you want to dry hump someone you don't know, just act like they were choking."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"It’s when you hide things that you choke on them."
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"Too much information will make your brain choke."
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"For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf."
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"Come on, Kaylee, before I choke on testosterone and melodrama."
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"When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater."
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"You choke my days, I'll choke yours."
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"Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke."
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"I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does."
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"Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real."
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"Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength."
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"Kind pity chokes my spleen."
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