"They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission."
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"I do have trouble with titles."
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"The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with."
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"Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins."
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"Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do."
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"God never promised us a trouble-free life."
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"I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up."
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"Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food."
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"One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped."
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"I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today."
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"I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised."
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"At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal."
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"I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself."
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"people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves."
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"Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble."
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"Troubles take wing for the man who can sing."
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"I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves."
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"There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it."
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"It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things."
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"When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security."
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