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• As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stars, Laughter, Squad

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

  Sarah

  Baby, Government, Oil

  "Sarah Palin Demands Hardball Regulations and a Takeover of BP" by Bob Cesca, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2010.

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• My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Character, Trying

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• The best passing drill is pass - set - hit. The best setting drill is pass - set - hit. The best hitting drill is pass - set - hit... Anything less than a game situation, unless very well planned, has the possibility of introducing artificial situations, and complete transfer to the game might not occur when drills are constructed in this manner.

  Marv Dunphy

  Games, Hitting, Might

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• Some drill and bore
  The solid earth, and from the strata there
  Extract a register, by which we learn,
  That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
  To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

  William Cowper

  Science, Age, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.151

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• Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

  Jojo Moyes

  Believe, Wife, Mouths

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• I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.

  George Saunders

  Blow, Giving, Holes

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.23, A&C Black

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• One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, School, Silence

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

  David Hackworth

  Men, Order, Rifles

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• Once you accept the fact that there's nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. I believe when we do things without fear, we can do anything. As long as you don't worry about the consequences.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, Oil, Long

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

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• You smell good." "It's called a shower. Soap, shampoo, water-" "Naked. I know the drill.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Smell, Water, Naked

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• I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Patience, Memorable

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• The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

  Richard J. Needham

  Birthday, Men, Age

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• There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Inspiration, Dancing

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• Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.

  John Treasure

  Business, Communication, Mean

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• I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Army, Years

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• Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Running, Block

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• In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

  Virgil Goode

  Oil, Years, House

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• Do passing drills that come from your offense.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Coaching, Passing

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• The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

  Jay Inslee

  Country, Jobs, Independence

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• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  Natalie Merchant

  Media, Mind, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Country, Strong, Hippie

  "Jesse Metcalfe talks a new ‘Dallas’ generation and … methane?" by Geoff Berkshire, uproxx.com. June 13, 2012.

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• You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Oil, America, Matter

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• The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

  Carl Pope

  Oil, Independence, Way

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• THERE IS A GAS LEAK IN THE BASEMENT OF THE SCHOOL. THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC. IT IS JUST A GAS LEAK WHICH MAY LEAD TO AN EXPLOSION AT ANY MOMENT. PLEASE ALL GO TO THE OVAL, AS PER THE FIRE DRILLS. -Charlie on the P.A.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  School, Fire, Needs

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.

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