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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.


Norman Mailer
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.


Oscar Wilde
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The Olympics must be my curse or something.


Blanka Vlasic
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.


P. G. Wodehouse
Tags: Just Bit Sit
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I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.


Diane Kruger
Tags: Women Beauty Who
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I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.


Billy Sunday
Tags: God You Tell
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I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.


Andrew Carnegie
Tags: Would Leave Soon
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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.


John Gay
Tags: May Open Friend
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.


William Shakespeare
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I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.


Patricia Richardson
Tags: Really Much Too
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.


Stendhal
Tags: Age Our Even
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My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.


Sean Combs
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.


Zhuangzi
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.


Victoria Woodhull
Tags: Freedom You Me
The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.
Luise Rainer
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Irving Penn
Tags: Get Being Look
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Douglas Coupland
Tags: You Your Never
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
James Harvey Robinson
Tags: Great Our Other
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato
Tags: Me Think Always
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
James Hillman
Tags: Because Own May
If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
Pat Benatar
Tags: You Know Want
The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.
Drew Brees
Tags: People About Just
Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?
Chief Bender
Tags: Best You Had
I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
Ray Lewis
Tags: God You About
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.
Ezra Cornell
Tags: Any Man His
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli
Tags: People Me Make
Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
Daisy Fuentes
Tags: You Very Had
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.
Miriam Toews
Tags: You Life Even
The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
Jim Harrison
Tags: Diet Me Get
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Tags: Time War Will
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.
Meryl Streep
Tags: Good Me Would
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.
Morgan Wootten
Tags: Great You Like
If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling.
John Madden
Tags: Time History You
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Tags: Great Home Who
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'
Ariel Dorfman
Tags: Home You Think
Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.
Sharon Van Etten
If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
Michael Winslow
Tags: Good You People
When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.
Tom Petty
Tags: Hope You People