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If you make it plain you like people, it`s hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Abyee Maracigan
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it`s damn hard to smile.
Judith Guest
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I`m a character actress, plain and simple...Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don`t work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand
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Silliness framed in intelligence. Even when it`s stupid, you know intelligent people are doing it and that makes it a different joke. Stupid comedy over here [in America] is just plain stupid. It`s moronic and I don`t find it funny at all. - when asked to...
Christopher Guest
Keywords: all :: america :: and :: are :: asked :: at :: comedy :: define :: different :: doing :: don :: even :: find :: framed :: funny :: here :: in :: intelligence :: intelligent :: is :: it :: joke :: just :: know :: makes :: moronic :: over :: people :: plain :: silliness :: stupid :: that :: to :: when :: youSource: imdb.com
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Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
Cameron Diaz
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I`ll be honest with you, it really, really, really annoys me, the image that`s put out there for women. These tiny, tiny bodies, with absolutely no fat at all on them. It`s unhealthy, plain and simple, and there are only a handful of women in the world wh...
Anne Hathaway
Keywords: absolutely :: all :: and :: annoys :: are :: at :: be :: bodies :: fat :: for :: handful :: honest :: image :: in :: it :: ll :: me :: natu :: no :: of :: on :: only :: out :: plain :: put :: really :: simple :: that :: the :: them :: there :: these :: tiny :: unhealthy :: who :: with :: women :: world :: youSource: imdb.com
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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. Meanwhile, we have Africans and African-Americans, contemporary men, with great ...
Djimon Hounsou
Keywords: africa :: african :: africans :: america :: americans :: and :: around :: bunch :: chasing :: contemporary :: fields :: gazelles :: geographic :: great :: has :: have :: like :: loincloths :: meanwhile :: men :: national :: negroes :: of :: plain :: plays :: running :: stori :: that :: the :: this :: understanding :: we :: withSource: imdb.com
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High school is like a spork: its a crappy spoon AND a crappy fork, so in the end, its just plain useless.
John Mayer
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[in 1976, reflecting on his fellow former child stars] Compare us to your high school graduating class. You`ll discover there is always a percentage of successes, and those who fall by the wayside to become alcoholics, dopers, or just plain losers. Sure t...
Roddy McDowall
Keywords: 1976 :: alcoholics :: always :: and :: are :: become :: by :: child :: class :: compare :: discover :: dopers :: fall :: fellow :: former :: graduating :: high :: his :: in :: is :: just :: ll :: losers :: of :: on :: or :: percentage :: plain :: reflecting :: school :: stars :: successes :: sure :: the :: there :: those :: to :: us :: wayside :: who :: you :: yourSource: imdb.com
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
Source: imdb.com
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The best thing that could happen is people get to see me as the smart and nice girl again, not as the mean or ditsy character. Hollywood makes brainiac girls sort of plain but, in High School Musical (2006) (TV), they`re gorgeous. I`m glad girls get to se...
Ashley Tisdale
Keywords: 2006 :: again :: and :: as :: best :: brainiac :: but :: character :: could :: ditsy :: get :: girl :: girls :: glad :: gorgeous :: happen :: high :: hollywood :: in :: is :: it :: makes :: me :: mean :: musical :: nice :: not :: of :: or :: people :: plain :: re :: school :: see :: smart :: sort :: that :: the :: they :: thing :: to :: tvSource: imdb.com
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Fame is short-lived and you`re the last to know when you are no longer hot. I used to be able to stroll into London clubs like Tramp. But one day I turned up and the doorman blocked my way. Suddenly I was no longer Bond, I was just plain old George Lazenb...
George Lazenby
Keywords: able :: an :: and :: are :: be :: blocked :: bond :: but :: clubs :: day :: doorman :: fame :: george :: hot :: into :: is :: just :: know :: last :: lazenby :: like :: lived :: london :: longer :: my :: no :: old :: one :: plain :: re :: short :: stroll :: suddenly :: the :: to :: tramp :: turned :: up :: used :: was :: way :: when :: youSource: imdb.com
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[on Elvis Presley in 1957] Sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd - in plain fact, dirty - lyrics it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on ...
Frank Sinatra
Keywords: 1957 :: almost :: and :: be :: by :: cretinous :: delinquent :: dirty :: elvis :: every :: face :: fact :: for :: goons :: imbecilic :: in :: it :: its :: lewd :: lyrics :: manages :: martial :: means :: most :: music :: of :: on :: part :: plain :: played :: presley :: reiterations :: sideburned :: sly :: sung :: the :: to :: writtenSource: imdb.com
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I always wanted to be Anna May Wong. She seemed so much more exotic and exciting than plain ordinary folk. But no-go. I wasn`t fated to be Wong, just white.
Paul Lynde
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[Battlestar Galactica] "Whatever you want to see or whatever you`re struggling with in life, you can see there, whether it be politics or terrorism or war, hope, faith, struggle, love. It`s all in there. Or if you just want plain action and neck-snapping ...
Grace Park
Keywords: action :: all :: and :: battlestar :: be :: can :: faith :: galactica :: hope :: if :: in :: it :: just :: life :: love :: neck :: or :: plain :: plot :: politics :: re :: see :: snapping :: struggle :: struggling :: terrorism :: there :: to :: twists :: want :: war :: whatever :: whether :: with :: youSource: imdb.com
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This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay thirty-five cents to look at it?
Spencer Tracy
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When I was dancing burlesque was an art - classy and elegant and requiring talent. I got out of it when it started to become raunchy and lost the art. Now they call it nude dancing, but its plain old pornography as far as I`m concerned. They do things on ...
Tura Satana
Keywords: an :: and :: art :: as :: become :: burlesque :: but :: call :: classy :: concerned :: dancing :: do :: elegant :: far :: got :: it :: its :: lost :: now :: nude :: of :: old :: on :: out :: plain :: pornography :: raunchy :: requiring :: stage :: started :: talent :: the :: they :: things :: to :: was :: whenSource: imdb.com
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In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd. When I got to college, I realized that building a resume to get into a good school was no longer necessary. I had already gotten into one. I might as well follow my bliss.
Mark Feuerstein
Keywords: already :: as :: bliss :: building :: college :: extracurricular :: follow :: get :: good :: got :: gotten :: had :: high :: in :: into :: jock :: just :: longer :: might :: my :: necessary :: nerd :: no :: one :: plain :: realized :: resume :: school :: that :: to :: total :: was :: well :: whenSource: imdb.com
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[speaking in the 1970s] "I`ve been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock v...
Greer Garson
Keywords: 1970s :: admirable :: after :: and :: be :: been :: characters :: felt :: homicidal :: in :: just :: kleptomaniacs :: long :: lot :: maniacs :: noble :: nymphomaniacs :: of :: offered :: plain :: playing :: producers :: pyromaniacs :: quite :: series :: shock :: speaking :: that :: the :: there :: think :: value :: ve :: wouldSource: imdb.com
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Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
Allama Iqbal
Keywords: accept :: and :: anwr :: at :: barrel :: be :: before :: bill :: by :: closer :: coastal :: develop :: effort :: explore :: first :: flows :: for :: from :: if :: it :: least :: of :: offered :: oil :: on :: plain :: probably :: solution :: that :: the :: this :: to :: today :: we :: will :: years :: yetSource: brainyquote.com
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Yes. And I believe there`s no comparison. We tried to get Brock for the last fight, we tried to get Brock for this fight and it`s plain to see that his people are not interested in fighting me. I don`t care what they say, they`d prefer to keep him away fr...
Anne Dobrowski
Keywords: and :: are :: away :: believe :: brock :: care :: comparison :: don :: fight :: fighting :: for :: from :: get :: him :: his :: in :: interested :: it :: keep :: last :: me :: no :: not :: pe :: people :: plain :: prefer :: say :: see :: that :: the :: there :: they :: this :: to :: tried :: we :: what :: yesSource: thinkexist.com
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don`t know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud
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Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.
Andre Bishop
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When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
Kathie Gifford
Source: brainyquote.com
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We left Oxley`s Table Land on the morning of the 31st of January, pursuing a northern course through the brush and across a large plain, moving parallel to the smaller hill, and keeping it upon our left.
Alan Grieve
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We have grown as a band, but we haven`t lost our notorious sense of humor. I`d call our music plain and simple hard-core metal.
Keith Buckley
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We don`t have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.
Axel Bush
