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I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.
Kyle Schmid
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.


Quentin Crisp
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.


Abraham Lincoln
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.


Jorge Luis Borges
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I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'


Demetri Martin
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.


Zac Efron
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We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.
Charles Lincoln Neal
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Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
Italo Calvino
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To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.


John Churton Collins
Tags: Out Ask Ten
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The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.


Chantal Kreviazuk
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.


Wilson Mizner
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I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I did because it was so intrusive. That's why I like Evolution - it's a strong yet subtle scent.
Trey Songz
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Robert Dallek
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Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
Heinrich Boll
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Maria Mitchell
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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.


Art Buchwald
We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.
Josh Radnor
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
Agnetha Faltskog
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I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water.


Alana Blanchard
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
Nancy Gibbs
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