“I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.”

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American stand-up comedian 1937–2008

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“I found that business life is full of creative original minds -along with the usual number of second-guessers, of course.”

John Brooks (writer) (1920–1993) American writer

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“Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush.

I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

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“This party is old and uninviting
Participants all in black and white
You enter in full-blown techincolor
Nothing is the same after tonight.”

Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist

Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)

“As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.”

Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter

“I said okay, but just not Memphis. Anywhere but there. And, of course, I went to Memphis.”

Darko Miličić (1985) Serbian basketball player

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“The observation of reduction in complexity in many groups or organisms after a structure has emerged in a full-blown state makes sense in terms of homeobox genes.”

Jeffrey H. Schwartz (1948) American anthropologist

p, 125
Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)

“Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.”

Geoffrey Blainey (1930) Australian historian

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“A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.”

John Lyly (1554–1606) English politician

Source: Euphues and his England, P. 314. Compare: "The rose is fairest when 't is budding new", Sir Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake, canto iii. st. 1.