Missing Quotes
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This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.
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I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.
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I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
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Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.
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Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.
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I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.
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Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.
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If you think you know it all, you are missing something.
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A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
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Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.
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what you don't know, you don't miss
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Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
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My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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Neptune's unusual behavior is showing us that though we can make great models of planetary atmospheric circulation, there may be key pieces missing.
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The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
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Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
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I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.
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People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."
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Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.” A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. “Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?
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The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times.
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Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses
