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Tag Name "Scratch" (245)

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Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
James Huneker
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Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.
Eve Merriam
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Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
Gail Caldwell
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
Dorothy Parker
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Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
Phyllis McGinley
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Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
Austen Chamberlain
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Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
Betty Rollin
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
Alan Kay
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Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.
Cammie McGovern
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Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.
Michael Fassbender
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge
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Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.
Michael Ghiselin
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Scratch my back with a hack saw!
Mike Lange
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Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
Murray Rothbard
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Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.
Laurence Olivier
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Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.
Mary McCarthy
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Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.
William John Locke
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I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.
William Shakespeare
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My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.
Zach Galifianakis
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You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to scratch your eyes out. If that isn't the stuff of fairy tales, I don't know what is.
Zoey Dean
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
Ina Garten
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He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
Elias Canetti
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