"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out."
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"It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things."
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"Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain."
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"Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself."
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"Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead."
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"Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it."
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"Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others."
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"I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines."
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"To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind."
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"You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something."
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"When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia."
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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."
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"News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it."
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"I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time."
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"Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage"
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"I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?""
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"Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself."
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"If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple."
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"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
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"Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean."
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