I stand up to people.

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"Age before beauty," said the devil as he threw his grandmother off' the stairs.

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"Ahu" are stone platforms on which many moai sit. There are 313 known ahu and 125 of these carry moai. The biggest, Ahu Tongariki is 220 m (720 ft), and had the most (15) and tallest moai.

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"All freight lightens," said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.

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"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

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"Almost a hit," said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.

Danish Proverb

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"Almost" and "About" prevent lying.

French Proverb

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"Almost" never killed a fly.

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"An egg is an egg," said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg.

German Proverb

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"Android" is gender specific.

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"Ascension Thursday" is 40 days after Easter and is when Christ was said to have ascended to heaven.

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"Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave," says the hangman to his man.

German Proverb

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"Bad company," said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.

Dutch Proverb

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"But" is a fence over which few leap.

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"Come and I'll tell you something," tickles the ear.

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"Come see me" and "Come live with me" are two different things.

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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

Barbara Corcoran

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I don't mind my age.

Heather Mills

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For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

Jon Fishman

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And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Lev Grossman

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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

John Stamos

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We live in an age of mediocrity.

Lauren Bacall

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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Jack Kevorkian

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I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

Stevie Nicks

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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

Dan Stevens

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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. Tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

Dan Stevens

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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Carl Hiaasen

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Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

John Legend

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I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

Ringo Starr

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I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

Bob Geldof

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– Keith Olbermann –

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