I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.
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Related Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un... GARY F EVANS... The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN We got married to get to know each other and see if we could make it together. BONNY BAKLEY We got married to get to know each other and see if we could make it together, ROBERT BLAKE We got married to get to know each other and see if we could make it together. BONNY LEE BAKLEY We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own sk... ANDRé BERTHIAUME Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose PARKER LOUIS SEELY We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers. REY MYSTERIO If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... All I know is that your the nicest thing I've ever seen, I wish we could see if we could be somethin... KATE NASH What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER We cannot wish for that we know not. VOLTAIRE Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are. CHRISTOPHER BARZAK In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... We have to bring face masks and gloves and had to have tetanus shots before we could be cleared. It ... MAURICE KUYKENDOLL Not all of us wish we could get, as not all we get is what we want LYZ STANDSTRODE Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are. MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ... ANUROOP TYAGI We walked every lot, all of the common areas and got all the information that we could get. FRANK GOMEZ We wish we could get to New Orleans, but we don't know when that will be, VINCE VAUGHN I wish we could play all four quarters like that. LOU DAWKINS He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss... PATRICK NESS We are all disciples of the light. STEVEN MAGEE We track the weather all day. We could get 3 to 7 inches, or the storm could miss us. JUSTIN GAMESTER Everyone wears metaphorical masks during their lives. We all have different faces we show to work co... LEISA RAYVEN After that (the surrender) we could run on the surface and the stills could make all the water they ... BOB HAYES As we play more and practice more together, we're getting to know each other more all the time. Ever... JANI RITA We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other. RALPH FIENNES I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We thought we had a chance. At that moment, we all kind of looked at each other in unspoken words an... TYLER AZZARELLI Giant fans from all around the country wish they could be here. It is sad, but we also know his spir... HARRY CARSON It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life. JUDD NELSON You never know, one of those might be the next Division II All-American, had we had taken the time t... BILLY MIMS Bart [Simpson] gets away with doing the things we all wish we could get away with. HANK AZARIA As the season wore on, you could see our development. We got used to playing with each other. I thou... BRIANA MATTHEWS We looked at all the products on the airplane, such as slippers, and tried to find where we could sa... ATHAR KHAN What, in all the world , could I do to earn my living and still live as myself, as I knew myse... JANET FRAME Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you ... COREY HAWKINS And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see. C.S. LEWIS And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we... KELSEY ASSARIAN We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We could then compare what we made with what we found in the syringe. And it was a perfect match, al... DON CATLIN All we know is, we could look and see what was happening to I-35. We knew that increasingly we would... DAVID LANEY We tried to make a heaven of earth, But the earth is just a stage, a school, Where we wear... KATE MCGAHAN Everybody got excited with that shot and we got the feeling. We were all as active as we could get. ANDRIS BIEDRINS We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's good to see those guys, ... We all know each other. We all know what we're going to get from ea... JEFF ROBINSON To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like... LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH I wish we could get four. GRANT SMYTHERS We've got every confidence that you could get the stowage done, but we've actually got quite a lot o... CADY COLEMAN I think we know each other pretty well. The players have been going against each other for years. I ... CARL BAILEY I wish I could predict the weather, but if we don't get any rain around here, it definitely could be... BILL MAYER To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supp... LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL They were loud. Every pitch, every strike, they got louder and louder. I wish it could be like that ... JOE NATHAN To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like suppo... LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Welcome to golf, ... I wish we could say we could putt well every day, but it doesn't happen. The on... TIGER WOODS We could run away. We could fight, or we could cut our losses and let the world know what Subway was... 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SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Whenever we had to score, we did, and whenever we needed a stop, we got one. You could see fear in t... BILL WENNINGTON I am very happy with the way we're playing. We've all come together. We all know our role. That's th... LACY HILL On the first day we contacted HEB and got them to donate all of their perishable foods, ... They tol... DAVID BARCLAY Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and liv... GYOMAY M. KUBOSE I would read all day if I could. QUVENZHANE WALLIS What about Monday? That could be our one day we look at things the same way, and wear funny shoes. KEVIN DALTON We thought we could have won them all, but we could have lost them all. They come to work every day ... BILLY GILLESPIE I couldn’t help but feel as if everyone had lied about everything. We all had secrets. We all had ... SHANNON A. THOMPSON I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER I wish we could have got it done. We played harder in the second half. We wanted to show what we wer... DERRICK CARACTER We should not be talking about the reusability of masks or other devices until we know whether they ... JEFFREY LEVI Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... 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