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But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

Amy Chua

Mean, People, Ifs

Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing

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It's not the skunk's fault that he's a skunk or that he gives off this really bad stink. If I am a skunk, I want to live as a skunk, I want to know what my truth is, to know the person I am without fear.

Hrithik Roshan

Giving, Want, Faults

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people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Charles Bukowski

Cousin, Mean, Thinking

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I don't usually stink. But I stunk today.

Peyton Manning

"Manning takes blame for Broncos' 43-21 loss to Brady and Patriots, says 'I stunk'" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. November 2, 2014.

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And still I look for the men who will dare to be
roses of England
wild roses of England
men who are wild roses of England
with metal thorns, beware!
but still more brave and still more rare
the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world
fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies
rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools
and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

D. H. Lawrence

Clever, Lying, Men

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

Charles Bukowski

Smell, Laughing, Would Be

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I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Believe, World, Lost

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.182, Vintage

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What's that smell?" I froze. What? Did I really smell so distasteful he had only to lean in my direction to catch a putrid whiff of me? I stayed the urge to break his freaking nose for pointing out my stinkiness. He sniffed again. "I can't place it." "How bad is it?" I asked, my cheeks heating. "It's good. Some kind of flower." My first thought: Hurray! I don't stink. My second: Ohmygod!

Gena Showalter

Flower, Smell, Noses

Gena Showalter (2012). “Animal Instincts”, p.66, Harlequin

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where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

Ted Hughes

Running, Hate, Holes

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Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

Bill Maher

Baseball, Team, Rain

"We can all stop laughing on Wednesday, but for now, here's a sampling of recall election humor, part deux, from the nation's wags" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. October 02, 2003.

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A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

William Kittredge

Men, Blow, Sea

William Kittredge (2007). “The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays”, Graywolf Press

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Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Nature, Strong, Smell

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Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

Doc Rivers

Basketball, Winning, Deodorant

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Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

Ralph Steadman

Jetty, Rotten, Privilege

"The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.

Caryl Churchill

Dog, Night, Tyrants

Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

Dustin Hoffman

Life, Mean, Inspire

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With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

Ted Hughes

Dark, Hot, Pages

"The Thought-Fox" l. 21 (1957)

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I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with profit both in seminars for graduate students and if the movie stinks and you forgot your sleeping pills on the businessman's special to Tokyo.

Stephen Jay Gould

Believe, Book, Sleep

"Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. Preface, p. 16, 1989.

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From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.

William Styron

Writing, Men, Thinking

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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

Alexander Pope

Men, Noses, Littles

Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.129

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I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

Ryan Miller

Hockey, Creative, Whole Life

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Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Archibald MacLeish

Men, Practice, Atheism

Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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Once you're president, you can't go anywhere without causing trouble. President Obama shows up in China, he's chewing gum, they go crazy. A big stink because the president's chewing gum. And you think, the Chinese are so easygoing about human rights. What's the problem?

David Letterman

Crazy, Thinking, Rights

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Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Charles Spurgeon

Hypocrite, Men, Hypocrisy

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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Everything stinks till it’s finished.

Dr. Seuss

Inspirational, Life, Finished

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