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«I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.»
«I don?t follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself»
«I lived [in Irvine], but I never felt totally accepted as one of these rich white suburban kids. I wasn't economically deprived like so many of my Chicano brothers and sisters, but I felt the tension and the rejection--and that's when I started getting into hip-hop, started break-dancing. `The Message,' `Rapper's Delight,' Run-DMC...that was what was happening around that time.»
Author: Zack de la Rocha
(Singer)
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break dancing, Brothers and Sisters, deprived, economically, hip, hips, hop, hopped, hopping, hops, hop up, like so, rejection, sisters, suburban, tension
«I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
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cared, cementing, cements, comparing, ephemeral, Helen, Helen Wills, Helen Wills Moody, like so, Moody, some other, sports, that much, transitory, wills
«I know you're shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day.»
«All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.»
«Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.»
«Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
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Black woman, fulfillment, glamour, husbands, jobs, like so, of necessity, romance, white woman, work out
«Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Allegories, allegory, like so, well-chosen
«I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of man's pride, if you give them time. The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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crannies, cranny, done with, like so, The C
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