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  • ... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ... -- Neal Stephenson
  • Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot. -- Omar Dorsey
  • If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does. -- Samuel Richardson
  • He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood. -- Mithun Chakraborty
  • While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake. -- Henny Youngman
  • Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel. -- Dan Buettner
  • Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake. -- Rob Sheffield
  • To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! -- Samuel Richardson
  • People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note. -- Eugene Chadbourne
  • I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open. -- Al Feldstein
  • We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't. -- Jeffrey Kluger
  • Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened. -- Eugene Chadbourne
  • I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain. -- Pete Seeger
  • I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. -- Eugene Chadbourne
  • I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. -- Eugene Chadbourne
  • If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say. -- Ice Cube
  • I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. -- Eugene Chadbourne
  • Every woman is at heart a rake. -- Alexander Pope
  • He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake... -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. -- Samuel Richardson
  • Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake. -- Alexander Pope
  • Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. -- Janet Morris
  • Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes. -- Frank Chodorov
  • If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all. -- Joe Hill
  • Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. -- Lord Byron
  • Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. -- Emily Bronte
  • Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]? -- Christine de Pizan
  • When we...go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment. -- Pam W. Vredevelt
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