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Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
Rita Coolidge
Tags: Time You Too
I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
Robert Smith
Tags: Just Up Never
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We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.


Emmanuel Macron
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My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.


Willard Wigan
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God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.


Lou Holtz
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Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.


Keenen Ivory Wayans
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.


Jack Lemmon
Tags: Car Who Always
I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
Joel Osteen
Tags: Good God People
I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.
William O'Neill
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
Tags: Always Than Which
People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.
Lech Walesa
Tags: You People Me
All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.
Robert Pinsky
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Lewis Carroll
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I'm always just excited about every opportunity that comes my way.


Clinton Sparks
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My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.
Tina Yothers
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Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.


Bill Cosby
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.


Nathan Lane
I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.
Katy Perry
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Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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