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• I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

  James Blunt

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

  Gregory Bateson

  Wise, Men, Tools

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• How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

  Robert Blair

  Stupid, Arrows, Guilt

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• All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Spirit, Instruments

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

  Epictetus

  Knives, Freedom Of Speech, Should

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

  John Flavel

  Iron, Hot, Cold

  John Flavel (1770). “The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...”, p.455

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• Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

  Emily Blunt

  Years, Giving, Advice

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• Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Eye, Thinking

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• When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

  Emily Blunt

  Love You, People, Needs

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• Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

  Emily Blunt

  Self, People, Touching

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• I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of me, which is nothing compared to the life of an artist. Writers can live in obscurity and come out of the woodwork with a book, then go back in. Artists don’t have that luxury.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Writing, Artist

  "Rachel Kushner: The Useless Truth". Interview with Jonathan Lee, www.guernicamag.com. February 17, 2014.

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• You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

  Bill Gates

  Fall, Government, People

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• My life is a blunt to the head, a prayer for the dead,
  Run around hustlin...scared of the feds.
  They said death is eternal sleep,
  But the only thing is you ain't really sure if you prepared for the bed.

  Styles P

  Running, Prayer, Rap

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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

  Laozi

  Money, Heart, Knives

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• The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Art, Cutting, Political

  Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

  James O. Fraser

  Cutting, Knives, Trying

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• Many people are noting the difference between Hillary Clinton's friendly public appearances and her blunt and direct Twitter account. Yeah, she's nice in person, and mean on the Internet. You know, kinda like EVERYONE.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Nice, Mean, Differences

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• Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it.

  Astley Cooper

  Mean, Nails, Abdomen

  Sir Astley Cooper (1835). “Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.213

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• 'You claim to be the man, you want me for a lover,
  So you can do my girlfriends and my sister and my mother?'
  I said, 'You're very blunt,' with quickness to the cue,
  'So whassup with your mother, does she look as good as you?'

  Dres

  Mother, Girlfriend, Rap

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• Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.

  Tana French

  Couple, Cutting, Forever

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Most of those men don’t want to sleep with you,” he said in blunt rebuttal. “I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Men, Fists

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection”, p.153, Penguin

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• Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

  George Saunders

  Story Writers, Stories, Chekhov

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• I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tone, Said, Sensitivity

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• Phury lit a blunt and eyed the sixteen cans of Aqua Net that were lined up on Butch and V's coffee table. "What's doing with the hair spray? You boys going drag on us?" Butch held up the lenght of PVC pipe he was punching a hole in. "Potato launcher, my man. Big fun." "Excuse me ?" "Didn't you ever go to summer camp ?" "Basket weaving and woodcarving are for humans. No offense, but we have better things to teach our youngs.

  J.R. Ward

  Summer, Fun, Coffee

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Lover Awakened: Number 3 in series”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• ...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul,
  Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style.
  Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes,
  Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

  Nas

  Rap, Blow, Clothes

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