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• Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

  Len Goodman

  People, Nerves, Bloody

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• Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.

  Billy Gardell

  Hate, Two, People

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• If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

  David Gilmour

  People, Concerts, Ifs

  "Q&A: David Gilmour". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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• Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

  Emilio Estevez

  Children, Parent, Planets

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• When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

  America Ferrera

  Please Me, Voice, Tuning

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.

  Sheryl Crow

  Relationship, Sweet, Mean

  Song: Am I Getting Through, 1998

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• The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Cheating, Sweet, Heart

  Song: Please Bypass This Heart

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• Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.

  Howlin' Wolf

  Home, Cat, People

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• Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Couple, Men, Keys

  "Coming into Los Angeles" (song) (1969)

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• I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

  John Lennon

  Running, Boys, Turkeys

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• No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.

  Ringo Starr

  Tired, Doors, Alcohol

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• Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Weed, Alcohol, Drug

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• Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

  Robbie Robertson

  Kings, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Song: American Roulette, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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• Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

  Lesley Gore

  Display

  Song: You Don't Own Me

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• Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

  Joni Mitchell

  Nature, Ddt, Apples

  Song: Big Yellow Taxi

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• Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.

  Tom Paxton

  Peace, Special, Potatoes

  Song: Don't Slay That Potato, Album: One Million Lawyers and Other Disasters, 1985

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• Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

  Sheryl Crow

  Lying, Believe, Promise

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• Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.

  Rod Stewart

  Lonely, Prayer, Gay

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• To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Death, Science, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Science, Devil, Divergent

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• I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?

  Chuck Berry

  Thinking, Honey, Bus

  Song: Nadine, Album: Definitive Collection

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• "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Mind, Moments

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.

  Susan Sontag

  Self Confidence, Class, Lifestyle

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Fate, Sea

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

  Bob Dylan

  Block, Doorways, Politics

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