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• The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

  Jessica Savitch

  Important Events, Panama Canal, Months

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.

  Richard Siken

  Animal, Glasses, Wind

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• Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

  Ringo Starr

  Musical, Sound, Looks

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• The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Wall, Fear, Father

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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• I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Two, People

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light.

  George MacDonald

  Morning, Sunshine, Light

  George Macdonald (2013). “The Princess Treasury”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Doe, Way

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• Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Admitting, Grass, Rescue

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• His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then replaced it with such amazing sensation she wanted to whimper in return. He licked her lips. He didn’t steal her kiss. He didn’t take it. He cajoled it from her.

  Lora Leigh

  Pain, Kissing, Return

  Lora Leigh (2018). “Elizabeth's Wolf”, p.92, Penguin

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• I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

  Jessica Savitch

  Police, Literature, Crime

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

  Edith Head

  Beautiful, Looks, Legs

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Serious Illness, Entrepreneur

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• For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

  Christina Ricci

  Mirrors, Years, House

  "Christina Ricci: Girl We Love". Interview with Stephen Reberllo, movieline.com. April 1, 1998.

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• People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go 'oh yeah you look small.' It kind of ruins the mystique.

  Hulk Hogan

  Covered Up, People, Looks

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• I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Wind, Faces

  "Planet Of The Apes : Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". www.cinema.com.

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• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Victory, Steel, Fool

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Want, Small Business, Unemployed

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• Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.

  Joe Klein

  Party, Men, Years

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• What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house."

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Son, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Athlete, School, Covered Up

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• I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

  Sloane Crosley

  Book, People, Giving

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• I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Dad, Writing

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• I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.

  Akshay Kumar

  Men, Race, Hands

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• It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Ideas, Fake

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• Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

  Louis L'Amour

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Louis L'Amour (2015). “The Rider of Lost Creek: The Classic Novel of Range War”, p.4, Renaissance EBooks

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