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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison

Parents, Person, Relatives

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain

Gay, Proud, Fact

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable

Made, Gold, Guts

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

Nothing, Friend, Heaven

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin

Himself, Pleasure, Thinks

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
Michelle Obama

Yourself, True, Negative

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela

Strength, Talent, Endurance

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. Kennedy

Great, Free, Between

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

Good, Friends, Opinion

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

Past, Person, Black

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Mitch Hedberg

Real, Hero, Down

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch Hedberg

Great, Two, Eat

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
Eminem

Successful, Everything, Succeed

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Eminem

Life, Boring, Songs

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Khalil Gibran

Human, Makes, Seem

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato

Power, End, Political

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
Sting

Life, Change, Jealous

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt

Dreams, Time, Live

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

Friends, Shows, Misfortune

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson

Life, Experience, Woman

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
Mitch Hedberg

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
Eminem

Change, Done, Pretty

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.
Michael Jordan

Trying, Enjoy, Problem

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
Michael Jordan

God, Respect, Before

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Lee Iacocca

Love, Family, Yourself

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.
Michael Jordan

Work, Person, Conscious

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

Equality, Die, Talk

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
Caroline Kennedy

Life, Work, Family

You know, most people really don't know me.
Marilyn Monroe

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Play, After

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