Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?"
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Whining
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Alex Smith
Football Player
"Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood."
Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur
"Whining isn't a scalable solution."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired."
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"I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door."
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"Whining is just unbecoming."
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"Stop whining, start hustling."
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"It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king."
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"I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither."
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"Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood."
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"Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!"
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