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• It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brother’s pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legs—just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Pain, Boys

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• Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Block, Land, Tyrants

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.139, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's always a 'but' when it comes to jobs. Like, I love my job but my colleagues are first-rate, but...a couple of them like to dress like superheroes on the weekend and I can't help but wonder if they're nuts." - Logan

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Couple, Weekend

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• True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack.

  Andrew Weil

  Heart, Risk, Facts

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• I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.

  Neil Gaiman

  Strong Women, People, Going Away

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• You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Dog, Horse, Children

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• To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut

  Peter Gabriel

  Life, Wine, Cutting

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• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Feminist, Lazy

  "How to Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula.

  David Alan Basche

  Land, Tvs, Ends

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• I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not
  what I was writing.

  Thom Yorke

  Writing, Self, Voice

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• Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Autumn, Poachers

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

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• I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

  Ian Mcewan

  Painful, Paraplegics, Contemplating

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!

  Mel Brooks

  Crazy, Guy, Brave

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• If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Mind, Steps

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• You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through consolidation. Why shouldn't the computer industry be any different? This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody but it seemed to be, and a lot of people thought I was nuts when I said these things. And that's why they are alone as a consolidator.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Views, People

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• The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I'm like Grace Jones to them. "This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where's the wife jokes, where's the fat jokes?"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Real, Night

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• I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.

  Terry Crews

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Smart, Writing

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.

  Jason Mraz

  Sleep, Cat, Singing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 11, 2014.

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• When I first went on [Facebook], I found there were five or six Creed Bratton sites. It was all over the place. I had to compete with other people saying they were me. It was nuts, so this is nice that people know that if they're gonna send something to me, I'm gonna be with my weird little mind looking at what they have to say. And what they're seeing is actually me.

  Creed Bratton

  Nice, People, Mind

  Source: talknerdywithus.com

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• I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.

  Patti Smith

  Real, School, White

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• You're not allowed to park a truck in your driveway. You're not allowed to work on your house on Sunday. The people who enforce these laws are nuts. After I wrote a column on this, I got I don't know how many letters from Coral Gables homeowners, story after story after story, wonderfully horrible stories. And the venom they felt for their own government!

  Dave Barry

  Sunday, Government, Law

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December 1, 1994.

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• We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We all know parents who had kids that when they turned 18 left the house and went nuts.

  Andy Andrews

  Kids, House, Parent

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Living an Extraordinary Life, Finding Your 'Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.

  Emo Philips

  Cutting, Strange, Used

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.

  Courtney Love

  Gay, Needs, Shows

  Source: www.gaycalgary.com

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