"You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down"
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"It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier."
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"Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat."
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"If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me."
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"So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'"
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"The people who support me are so great! They all say such nice things that make me feel really great. I love it when people compliment me on the way I act, because it is not an easy thing, and there is so much criticism out there."
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"When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six."
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"I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day."
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"If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time"
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"I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me."
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"God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set."
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"If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house."
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"It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that."
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"'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces."
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"Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had."
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"A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you."
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"I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life."
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"Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how."
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"Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous."
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"It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work."
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