"Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought."
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"Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time."
"Everything is made of light"
"nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him."
"Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat."
"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"
"Critics are already made."
"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious"
"As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves."
"I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say."
"You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
"I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."
"Man made God in his own image."
"Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships."
"I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up."
"No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul"
"No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul"
"We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."
"A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment."
"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."