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• I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Hair, Rope

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

  Jeff Bridges

  Artist, Giving, Actors

  "Jeff Bridges Is Still Searching ... But For What?" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!

  Ian Somerhalder

  Zero, Jobs, Technology

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• You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.

  Burk Uzzle

  Hair, Perfection, Fleeting

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• The slow cooker has a tremendous breadth of uses. I find it supplements regular kitchen equipment, and stands in for things that you might not have. Many of the recipes I've come up with, like risotto, is just not what one would think about with this gadget.

  Michele Scicolone

  Thinking, Kitchen, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that.

  Malik Yoba

  Looks, Chance, Talent

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

  Eric Holder

  New York, Airplane, Thinking

  "Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks" by Jack Cloherty, Pierre Thomas, abcnews.go.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Years, People

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• How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Long, Together, Length

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• The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink.

  Dorianne Laux

  Depth, Needs, Weight

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• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  Irving Babbitt

  Sympathy, Stress, Humanitarian

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Fall, Depth

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• ...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Voice, Swearing

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Invisible Man”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Heaven, Soul

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.69, Om Books International

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• I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

  Karen Russell

  Hate, Stupid, People

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• But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

  Rick Bragg

  Dream, Book, Years

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• I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

  Philip Roth

  Maps, Body, Toes

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Sep 26, 2016

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• Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Heart, Mean

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

  Susan Cain

  Gun, Race, Giving

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Sadness, Emotional

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• In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Knowledge, Order, Enough

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• It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Hair, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.349, New York Review of Books

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• Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Wine, Sleep

  "The Common Reader". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1925.

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• Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth. They just kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower.

  Markus Zusak

  Summer, Book, Doors

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• Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

  Jesse Ball

  Punishment, Wish, Three

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Nov 27, 2011

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