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• There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.

  Alissa York

  Rivers, Survival, Sorrow

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• What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Kindness, Integrity, Self Esteem

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• We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks. ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.

  RZA

  Real, Want Something, People

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• I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.

  Ezra Koenig

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

  Duncan Sheik

  Real, Play, Roots

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• My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

  Josh Hartnett

  Dad, Vacation, Guitar

  "Josh Hartnett On “August”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. July 15.

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• The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

  James Woods

  Mouths, Bass, Sticks

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• Let's hook up and just bring fiery death.

  Charlie Sheen

  Hook Up, Fiery

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• How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

  Aldo Leopold

  Hunting, Wind, Fishing

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

  Graham Joyce

  Eye, Imagination, Tiny

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• Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!

  Scott Steiner

  Funny, Wwe, Heavyweights

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• The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

  Hugh Prather

  Swimming, Past, Offering

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• Gifts are like hooks.

  Martial

  Martial, Garry Wills (2008). “Martial's Epigrams: A Selection”, p.80, CUP Archive

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• I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

  Laverne Cox

  Bells, Stage, Saying The Wrong Thing

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• What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.

  John Yau

  Mean, Artist, Talking

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• Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.

  Peter Gabriel

  Broken Heart, Letting Go, Hurt

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• Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Kids, Reality

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• It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

  Don Roff

  Land, Imagination, Crosses

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• Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.

  Robert Paul Wolff

  Believe, Issues, Soul

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• Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it’s like you weren’t hurt.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Hurt, Distance, Like You

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• Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.

  Leslie Jamison

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.13, Granta Books

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• A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fishing, Fool, Sticks

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• A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Likes

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• It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them.

  Medgar Evers

  Children, Fighting, Men

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• This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.

  Norman Fell

  Jobs, Attitude, Divorce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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