Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you're in front of them."
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Kicking
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Stephen King
Author
"Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest."
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture."
Dana Gould
Comedian
"One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping."
Pindar
Poet
"To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure."
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"The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes."
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"When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive."
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"There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you succeed in developing, you kick away the ladders so others can't do it too, and you preach about "free trade.""
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"Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest."
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"I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment."
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"Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it."
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"The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime."
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"Women have been kicking ass for centuries."
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"People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass."
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"I'm not in a recession. I'm doing very, very well. I'm doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass."
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"Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe."
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"Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else."
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"I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet."
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"Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business."
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"Why are you constantly escorting me places?” I say. “Isn’t there a depraved activity you’re supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?"
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"I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top."
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"The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss."
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"A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved."
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"I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life."
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"The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone."
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