Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first."
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Kevin James
Actor/Comedian
"There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap."
Russell Simmons
Entrepreneur, Music Producer
"It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap."
Murray Walker
Motorsport Commentator
"Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record."
Robin Williams
Actor, Comedian
"Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really."
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"The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention."
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"Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up."
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"It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way."
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"I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap."
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"Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth."
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"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune."
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"The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin."
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"It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go."
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"Asleep in lap of legends old."
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"Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a hobby."
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"I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception."
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"From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path."
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"I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative."
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"Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?"
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"...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap."
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"Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap."
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"Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love."
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"Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord."
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"Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!"
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"His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap"
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