Jerry Garcia
Musician
"We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice."
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Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully."
Bette Davis
Actress
"If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
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"If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull."
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"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."
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"Not everyone likes all our flavors, but each flavor is someone's favorite."
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"A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!"
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"The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional."
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"He that best understands the world, least likes it"
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"This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged."
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"There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other."
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"Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it."
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"The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it"
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"A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs."
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"I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music."
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"To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom."
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"Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share."
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"A church that likes power likes prayer."
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"A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down."
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"Everybody likes a compliment."
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"If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person."
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"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."
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"In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular."
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