"I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing."
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"A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static."
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"The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn."
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"Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto."
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"Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!"
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"The truth can wait, for it lives a long life."
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"Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am."
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"A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking."
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"The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch."
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"And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough."
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"Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?"
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"Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion."
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"Greatest scandal waits on greatest state."
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"The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state."
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"Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
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"One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages."
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"All things come to him who waits"
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"We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting."
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"Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me."
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"I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
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