Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else. From LearnThat.org. [Judy Garland]
A second-rate man can never make a first-rate citizen. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
How, exactly, did a second-rate actor earn front-runner status?. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: The Last Days Of The Circus] Reference
Played second fiddle to Kim, a second-rate model slash psychopath. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Story of Me (non-fiction and should be disqualified)] Reference
Smith's place was a second-rate blacksmith shop, while at Chelton. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
And do you suppose these second-rate creators get the real thrill?. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Instead, you see row after row of the second-rate fluids they can only sell at home. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Hoggart's week: Lot valley? The French aren't kidding] Reference
Neither France nor any other could henceforth taunt her with being a second-rate power. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
There is an atmosphere about a first-class hotel that frightens away second-rate people. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
Spain is to-day in all but extent of territory a fourth-rate rather than a second-rate power. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
We need to develop dynamic new businesses to prove American-style capitalism isn't second-rate. From Wordnik.com. [The U.S. Needs Its Own Industrial Policy] Reference
I went to a very second-rate college that no one ever got kicked out of, and I just didn't feel ready. From Wordnik.com. [They Would Kill for An Emmy] Reference
Her opponents, mostly the rich, spread rumors that the second-rate actress had slept her way to the top. From Wordnik.com. [Her Immortal Remains] Reference
Who knew that Teddy Roosevelt called Taft a "flub-dub with a streak of the second-rate and the common in him"?. From Wordnik.com. [Books: American Psyche] Reference
Those most vulnerable are temp workers, newer hires, the least skilled and managers thought to be second-rate. From Wordnik.com. [Making It Through 2002] Reference
Our policy should reflect that reality and not the years of bile we have accumulated against a second-rate thug. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Get Real About Iraq] Reference
Ours were but second-rate hirelings, and we made up our minds to buy later on, when starting on a long expedition. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
On "Life With Bonnie," she stars as the host of a second-rate morning talk show and an overworked mother of three. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Bonnie] Reference
Amy looked on the homely pile of second-rate goods and made some light, frivolous remark about their beautiful home. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
The play began with some second-rate actors, who went through the first scene with the usual affected stage strut and tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"" It's like minor-league baseball, '' says Casey, a slog of mini-tours, often on second-rate courses in glamourless towns. From Wordnik.com. [From The Rough] Reference
What second-rate American writer would see any wit in describing himself, like Dean Alford in his recent book on language, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
"The Kitchen God's Wife" (1991) was beautifully written -- Tan has yet to publish a second-rate sentence -- but melodramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Story] Reference
It is only one of their deadly musical evenings, with about three second-rate professionals, and a sprinkling of local talent. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
I was a second-rate liar so I was lucky that Grandma was the only person in my life around whom I had to be something I wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [Ignorance Is Not Bliss] Reference
But the novelty fades fast, leaving behind corny jokes, second-rate choreography and more camping than at a Boy Scout jamboree. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
In reality she's an American actress, Renee (Beverly D'Angelo), starring in a second-rate Dublin production of "Destry Rides Again.". From Wordnik.com. [Obsession By The Sea] Reference
At times the warring parties look no better than third-rate Savonarolas baying after second-rate daubers, scribblers and shutterbugs. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Art Or Foul?] Reference
Any second-rate comic can mock hanging chad, the Supreme Court and a nail-biting election -- even Bill Maher seemed funny back in 2000. From Wordnik.com. [Red, White & Funny] Reference
They were Lord Gambier, Henry Goulburn, and William Adams, all second-rate men, but for this reason suited to the part they had to play. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
The conventional wisdom today is that while most CPA officials were enthusiastic and brave, too many were inexperienced and second-rate. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking the Silence] Reference
And, with his red lips, his glittering eye and the cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth, he made love to second-rate "sisters," inferior. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The factories of the day had accustomed the public to second-rate material and second-rate colour, and Morris was determined to set a higher standard. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
He will do well to be not without a touch of intolerance: that intolerance which, in the lover of the best, is an act of justice against the second-rate. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
We may hear of good results sometimes, obtained by planting second-rate plants, but certainly the results would be better if better plants had been chosen. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference
Throughout the whole of Russia there were, at the time of which we speak, but few universities, and these scarcely deserved to rank above second-rate colleges. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
Our lives become unnaturally stressed and tormented by the pitiless and incessant struggle for social conditions which are, at best, second-rate and ultimately disappointing. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
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