John F. Kennedy
Politician
"If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache."
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Headache
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"I have a terrific headache."
Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!"
George Herbert
Poet
"The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]"
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee."
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"Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches."
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"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
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"My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches."
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"If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches."
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"Marijuana is like sex: If I don't do it every day I get a headache."
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"I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done."
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"I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't."
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"Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'."
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"If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache."
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"The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape."
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"Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches."
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"We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner."
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