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• I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Covered Up

  "JJ Abrams: Hollywood's Renaissance man" by Horatia Harrod, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2014.

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• I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority of the time in a pollen and bird poop covered car. This presents a stand off between Neat Freakshow and Practical Pennypincher, and Neat Freak usually triumphs. And then it rains.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Rain, Mean, Thinking

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• [Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Years, Veils, Lasts

  "Ataturk : An Intellectual Biography" by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, (p. 38), 2011.

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• There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well.

  Paul Weller

  Nice, Territory, Uncharted

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2008.

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• The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Thinking, Reflection, Ideas

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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• Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

  Michael Herr

  War, Identity, Roles

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.17, Vintage

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• The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

  Rand Paul

  Moss, Gop

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• Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia childbirth is not covered by Putin-care.

  David Letterman

  Baby, Girlfriend, Russia

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• It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Children, Octopus, Eight

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.206, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

  Jack White

  Song, Taken, Two

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

  Liya Kebede

  Husband, Blood, Ultrasounds

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• I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Memories, Home, Childhood

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

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• I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

  Edith Widder

  Jobs, Ocean, Thinking

  PBS "NOVA", www.pbs.org. July 23, 2008.

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• It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Flower, Men, Tree

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• To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
  There is a new-made grave today,
  Built by never a spade nor pick,
  Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
  There lie many fighting men.
  Dead in their youthful prime.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Lying, Fighting, Men

  Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Baby, Down And, Remember

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• Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below
  Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, White, Air

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• What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Art, Men

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.60

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• In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Flower, Grief

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.33

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• Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.

  Bill Vaughan

  Struggle, Race, Dust

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• Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.

  David Korten

  Reality, People, Community

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• If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Clouds, Waiting

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• We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.

  Oscar Romero

  Jesus, Children, Sleep

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