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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Nation More Right Necessity

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

William Tecumseh Sherman

You Lion Breakfast Say

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

Herman Melville

You Great Book Choose

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Marian Wright Edelman

You Dog Nation Injustice

My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.

Solange Knowles

Mother You Look Clothes

I do honour the very flea of his dog.

Dog Honour Very His

I love clothes! I shop everywhere, but I like Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus. It's a wide range. I'm from California, and I love the Pasadena Flea Market.

Love Clothes Forever Like

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

Like Him Musician

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

Sandra Cisneros

Music Way Listening Living

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.

Dog Enjoy Mystery Being

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At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Jewelry Always Table Head

I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

Beautiful Man Travel Clock

I always had dreams. I knew I wanted to have money to buy things at the flea market. That's worked out well.

Dreams Money Always Things

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

Story Behind Things Handmade

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

Pretty Thrift Markets Much

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

Zooey Deschanel

Love Dress You Look

I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

Man I Am Gay Lucky

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

People Pictures Growing Up Know

I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go these places, and she'd take me along.

Me Loved Go She

I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

Love Time Sometimes My Own

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

Song Look Go Things

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

Kelly Wearstler

You Book Special Always

In L.A., I did a lot of vintage flea market dresses and Doc Martens.

Vintage Dresses Market Did

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

Me Cool Mother You

I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

Me Time Home You

'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

Smile Me You Worry

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