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Jai Ganesh

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Check Quotes - III

Check Quotes - III

1. Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. - Ezra Pound

2. I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. - Lord Byron

3. I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man. - Brad Pitt

4. I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother. - Kate Winslet

5. Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent. - Matt Damon

6. You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. - David Rockefeller

7. I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. - Kevin Costner

8. I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. - Lord Mountbatten.

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