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• A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them....Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Men, Issues, Decision

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• The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Thinking, Years, Names

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.13, Kodansha America

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• The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

  Waylon Jennings

  Song, Art, Writing

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• My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wire, Firsts, Cigar

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• Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

  Bell Hooks

  Race, Practice, Class

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.44, Routledge

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• I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.

  Richard Louv

  Change, Dream, Mean

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• Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Plato, Mistake, Men

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• A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men.

  William Prynne

  Men, Hair, Covering

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• There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.

  Charlie Manuel

  Baseball, Art, Reading

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• A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

  David Mamet

  Meaningful, Get Better, Stories

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in Illustrator, then laser-cut. I like the fact that it's slightly wrong; I think it gives it a beauty. The individual and handmade will always be worth more than what a computer can do, at least until computers can learn how to make mistakes.

  Ben Eine

  Mistake, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Children, Ideas, Growth

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Priorities, Timing, Problem

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Research, Affected, Scientific Research

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.

  Tavis Smiley

  Loss, Editors, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

  Todd Phillips

  Watches, Way, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.

  Tom Hanks

  Order, Years, Numbers

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• In real life, when you speak with each other you overlap each other, so you can't fake that. Like especially when you have no cut. In a regular film when you want people to overlap you cut it that way. It's mixing and editing.

  Julie Delpy

  Real, Editing, People

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 22, 2014.

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• The beauty of shooting on something that's not in front of an audience is that you can just cut out the times you're laughing. You can cut to the other person and try to use that moment, right before you break. There's an energy to those performances. There's a reason people were laughing. There was something very special. That little extra something was in that line delivery or in that improv, so you try to use that stuff.

  Ken Marino

  People, Laughing, Special

  Source: collider.com

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• Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just say murder? Cut and dried. Go away forever. Or maybe you should have the electric chair yourself.

  Jack Black

  Should Have, Judging People, Forever

  "Actor Jack Black". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2012.

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• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Rose, Dresses, Routine

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!

  Eric Thomas

  Sleep, Successful, Enemy

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• Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here's a little tip Howard - cut back on the Red Bull.

  David Letterman

  Bulls, Littles, Red

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• While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and balanced Vermont's budget - all traditionally conservative policies. Dean also received an 'A' rating from the National Rifle Association, which I think you can't get unless you've killed a guy.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Thinking, Guy

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• I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Government, Community

  "Obama Announces GM, Chrysler Restructuring Plan (FULL TEXT)", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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