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I and quit
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
Then later I had quit my safe, secure five-a-week spot on a network soap opera to take a part in this play.
" Alongside this schooling, he joined the Boy Scouts, although he would later note that he only " became one so I could quit, and put it behind me.
Dissatisfied with the King Bees and their repertoire of Howlin ' Wolf and Willie Dixon blues numbers, Bowie quit the band less than a month later to join the Manish Boys, another blues outfit, who incorporated folk and soul — " I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger ", Bowie was to recall.
Swayed by an overmastering impulse within me, and a long-cherished desire to visit those glorious sanctuaries, I resolved to quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home.
I John Audubon, having this day mutual consent with Ferdinand Rozier, dissolved and forever closed the partnership and firm of Audubon and Rozier, and having Received from said Ferdinand Rozier payment and notes to the full amount of my part of the goods and debts of the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, I the said John Audubon one of the firm aforesaid do hereby release and forever quit claim to all and any interest which I have or may have in the stock on hand and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier assign, transfer and set over to said Ferdinand Rozier, all my rights, titles, claims and interest in the goods, merchandise and debts due to the late firm of Audubon and Rozier, and do hereby authorize and empower him for my part, to collect the same in any manner what ever either privately or by suit or suits in law or equity hereby declaring him sole and absolute proprietor and rightful owner of all goods, merchandise and debts of this firm aforesaid, as completely as they were the goods and property of the late firm Audubon and Rozier.
Benny then fired David, so I quit, too.
Said safety Rodney Harrison, " If I had to go through another year like that, I'd probably quit playing ".
:" There's one thing I've always wanted to do before I quit: Retire.
" Would you be the man who should recommend me to quit the peaceful haven where I now pass my life and launch again upon the faithless sea?
I quit.
I have, and I will now promise you that if you liked Roger Rabbit, quit while you're ahead.
Tim served as leader of this version of the Titans until 2009, at which point he quit due to the events of Batman R. I. P.
* I will never quit smoking.
Ali later said that " Frazier quit just before I did.
" If the King should attempt to change our religion ," he is reputed to have remarked to Lord Galway shortly after James II's succession, " I will instantly quit his service.
This makes him willing to quit a condition, which, however free, is full of fears and continual dangers: and it is not without reason, that he seeks out, and is willing to join in society with others, who are already united, or have a mind to unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates, which I call by the general name, property.
" They insisted I quit playing Santa Claus ," Oswald observes.
Loys de Ronsard was maître d ' hôtel du roi to Francis I, whose captivity after Pavia had just been softened by treaty, and he had to quit his home shortly after Pierre's birth.
Marriott officially quit the band at the end of 1968, walking off stage during a live New Year's Eve gig yelling " I quit ".

I and work
`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.
The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.
Never until in this work of S-D organization have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a Teacher.
Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.
And I was to go to work on that odd matter.
Until the work actually appears I am not privileged to analyze it publicly in detail.
Stirring, he said: `` I am sorry that my work prevents me from doing anything with you today ''.
I work at the granary.
However, I am recommending that development work on the B-70 air-frame and engines be continued.
These specialists, I learned, have done a great deal of work to improve the size and health of the plants and the resulting flowers.
I have just seen Debonnie and Prompt Time work a mile in 2:34, last quarter in :35.3.
More often than not I have found easy excuse to leave my own work and stand at a respectable distance where I could watch this man transform raw nature into a composed, not imitative, painting.
`` Of late years, I find that I like best to work out-of-doors.

I and at
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

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