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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce
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James Joyce
Irish
Novelist
Born:
Feb 2
,
1882
Died:
Jan 13
,
1941
Topics
Stiff
,
Ireland
,
Sober
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hurt
Party
Has-Been
He
Wronged
Healed
Because
Insult
Does
Stiff
Been
Want
Wants
Apology
Injured
Second
I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.
Alexandra Fuller
Family
Writing
Saw
Born
Outlet
Combination
Coupled
Stiff
Up
Afflicted
Southern
Lip
Upper
Africa
Children
Grew
Fortunately
England
Trauma
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Fatal
British
I think that the stiff competition for places is a positive thing.
Andre Schurrle
Positive
Competition
Think
Positive Thing
Stiff
Places
Thing
As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.
Andrew Whitworth
Tired
You
Sit
Older
Around
Stiff
Get
Things
Start
Set
Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.
Charlie Siem
Day
Me
Every Day
Dark
School
College
Every
Collar
Fine
Wear
Dressing
Had
Trousers
Part
Because
Stiff
Always
Go
Up
Where
Wanted
Loved
Reason
To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.
Cherie Lunghi
Fitness
Great
Morning
Strict
Every
Stretching
Strictly
Back
Dancing
Once
Once A Week
Week
Come
Pilates
Stiff
Yoga
Getting
Regime
Keep
I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.
Dean Karnazes
School
Job
College
Corporate
Bored
Had
Stiff
Got
Fit
Grad
Grad School
Just
Really
Mold
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
Doris Lessing
Me
Met
Would
Bore
Knew
Until
Stiff
Whenever
Anyone
Anything
Them
Who
Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.
Drew Barrymore
Work
You
Lose
Sense
Think
Else
Having
Having Fun
Never
Put
Feel
Also
Stiff
Going
Want
Fantastic
Your
Fun
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