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• With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

  Neil LaBute

  Hurt, Men, Feelings

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• It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.

  John D. Caputo

  Philosophy, Eagles, Wings

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• A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

  Dave Grohl

  Perfection, People, Safe

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on His 'Sound City' Doc and Taking Risks in Music". Interview with Katie Van Syckle, www.rollingstone.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

  Camille Paglia

  Army, College, Records

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• I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.

  Alex Lifeson

  Inspiration, Thinking, Gun

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• "I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

  Winston Churchill

  War, Blood, Sweat

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• She could have dropped you both off. whar's the worst she can do? cry hysterically?"the gears on the ute get stuck at the lights and will pushes tom's hand out of the way and and shoves it into the correct gear."it wasn't her" he mutters after a moment."sorry?" tom says."she didn't cry""then what?"it's too quiet except for the quiet for the crap engine sounding like a lawn mower."i cried"luca bursts out laughing beside will."yeah, well i did" will says. "And it's not the thing you want to do in front of a bunch on engineers.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sorry, Light, Hands

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• The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.

  Eric Bristow

  Home, Names, Tvs

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy that is cheaper, stable and more sustainable. We have a stark choice: We can stay stuck in the last century's boom and bust approach to our economy in the way we consume energy and resources, or create a sustainable, stable and renewable energy infrastructure with the long term environmental and employment benefits that ensue

  Phil Harding

  Long, Choices, Environmental

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• Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Giving, Doe

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

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• She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

  Jenna Blum

  Life, Believe, Doe

  Jenna Blum (2005). “Those Who Save Us”, p.445, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God loves you just the way you are. But He loves you too much to leave you stuck in a state of defeat

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Love You, Too Much, Way

  Lysa TerKeurst (2012). “Made to Crave Devotional: 60 Days to Craving God, Not Food”, p.25, Thomas Nelson

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• The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

  Bill Drayton

  Jobs, Entrepreneur, Way

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• If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Vision, Knows, Ifs

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• Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Acceptance, Doe

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• The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.

  Toni Packer

  Love, Pain, Self

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• The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

  Nicole Krauss

  Memories, Data, Ideas

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.39, Anchor

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• But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

  Marvin Minsky

  Doe, Levels, Bigs

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• I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

  Kim Novak

  Hollywood, Able, Aviation

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• Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action - which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way.

  Dan Miller

  Dream, Opportunity, Imagination

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.79, B&H Publishing Group

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• When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Flow, Pleasure

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• If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.

  David Deutsch

  Infinity, Infinite, Explanation

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• Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

  Wayne Dyer

  Procrastination, Use, Born

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• When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

  Max Lucado

  Doors, Cells, Jail

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Long, Complaining

  Twitter post from May 5, 2013

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