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• What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

  Nikki Sixx

  Cutting, Throat, Wells

  Interview with Brett Christensen, wisconsinmusic.net. February 23, 2005.

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• I looked up, but had to crane my head back, leaving the features above me wrong-side up. The clear green eyes were the same, and, unfortunately, so was the spiky blond hair. It didn’t look any better from this angle, I decided.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Hair, Leaving

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.

  Wally Pfister

  Thinking, Support, Important

  Interview With Carrie Seidman, ticket.heraldtribune.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.

  Johannes Kepler

  Morning, Stars, Lying

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• Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

  William Faulkner

  Truth, Honesty, Simple

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• Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Real, Moving, Work Out

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

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• Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

  Drake

  Life, Angel, Humble

  Song: Get Over It

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• People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Running, Educational, Teaching

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

  Carl Sagan

  Suicide, Atheist, Men

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• Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Home, Men, Giving

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press

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• Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Light, Tree

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• While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

  Fred Perry

  Beautiful, Athlete, Drawing

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• Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times ­ it is there.

  Billie Jean King

  Wrestling, Games, Tennis

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• The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Tree

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.90, Modern Library

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• The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Differences, Tree

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.93, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached
  When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Basketball, Running, Boys

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• Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

  Holland Cotter

  New York, Fabulous, Bones

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• Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

  Jelena Jankovic

  Photographer, Court, Flattering

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• I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Song, Writing, Caring

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• Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise every way possible. And with a good legal argument, you have to see all sides to get the best line of argument for your client. Law school made me a better comic, and comedy has made me a better public speaker.

  Troy Walker

  Writing, School, Law

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• The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Stars, Moving, Mean

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1976). “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”, David & Charles Publishers

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• I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Simple, Often Is

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• This is quite difficult 'cause I have a really flat head, and so it's quite difficult to get a correct angle. And you can't go up from down below as well, 'cause I've got, like, rock solid gelled hair. And so, like, it was odd. I don't know, sometimes I feel like my head is being, like, turned inside out. Like that episode of Ren & Stimpy when he's inside his own belly button. I don't know.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Hair, Rocks

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