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• He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.

  Tone-Loc

  Animal, Legs, Bowls

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• About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.

  Melina Marchetta

  Memories, Lying, Father

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• Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

  Truman Capote

  Sky, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Ends

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• The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

  Spike Jonze

  Age, Anxious

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Thinking, Eyelashes, Together

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Missing Angel Juan”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.

  Spike Jonze

  Kids

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• It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.

  Tone-Loc

  Family, Mother, Two

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• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  Sam Kinison

  Rocks, People, Giants

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• Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Country, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.358, Cambria Press

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• If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

  Fannie Flagg

  Running, Home, Nine

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.290, Random House

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• I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

  Ezra Furman

  Sake, Kind, Structure

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Nature, Taken, Men

  Mary Hunter Austin (2006). “Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing”, Heyday Books

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• I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

  Maurice Sendak

  Wanted, Frightening

  "The Art of Maurice Sendak". Book by Selma G. Lanes, 1980.

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• Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.

  Terry Jones

  Heart, Hockey, Nhl

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• Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn't want to live in a world where all wild things - without and within - are domesticated.

  Sam Keen

  World, Want, Realizing

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

  Mike Tyson

  Hurt, Men, Drug

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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