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Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power. – John Fogerty	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
In the business schools, students are taught topics like management strategy or tactics and ethics. But in the business world, an employee who licks the boot of top-level management playing politics readily gets the raise. – Probaerb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
(Rio and BHP) have both got some sort of growth pipeline, but both companies have been quite rightly reluctant to commit big licks of capital to add volumes to oversupplied markets. – Ben Lyons	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They have a bromance going on, when I get off Wentworth, Journey runs right up to him and licks out his nostrils. It's a little bit personal -- but Wentworth obviously likes it. – Young Sydney	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think we still play some of the licks that he and Scotty Moore and that group that kind of invented rock 'n' roll played. – Harold Bradley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I feel if a person is willing to come forward in that setting and admit they violated the policy when there is absolutely no advantage to do so, then I feel that deserves some consideration, that they are willing to say, 'I have done something wrong and I am willing to take my licks and deal with it,'. – Nicole Eramo	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. – Gene Roddenberry	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Orange fluff ball, Rocky is an 18-pound marvel of love, so fluffy, he looks like he’s 26 pounds. He scares the local dogs just by sitting and staring at them. Rocky’s there for me when I get home, purrs when he wants to, leads me to the food bowl when he needs to, licks me in an attempt to heal my wounds, loves cellophane, red ribbons, left over chicken. Rocky, my best friend, is my orange fluff ball, and I wish I could share him with the world.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

– John Fogerty

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

In the business schools, students are taught topics like management strategy or tactics and ethics. But in the business world, an employee who licks the boot of top-level management playing politics readily gets the raise.

– Probaerb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

(Rio and BHP) have both got some sort of growth pipeline, but both companies have been quite rightly reluctant to commit big licks of capital to add volumes to oversupplied markets.

– Ben Lyons

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They have a bromance going on, when I get off Wentworth, Journey runs right up to him and licks out his nostrils. It's a little bit personal -- but Wentworth obviously likes it.

– Young Sydney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think we still play some of the licks that he and Scotty Moore and that group that kind of invented rock 'n' roll played.

– Harold Bradley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I feel if a person is willing to come forward in that setting and admit they violated the policy when there is absolutely no advantage to do so, then I feel that deserves some consideration, that they are willing to say, 'I have done something wrong and I am willing to take my licks and deal with it,'.

– Nicole Eramo

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

– Gene Roddenberry

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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