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• We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, People, Entertainment

  "Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan'". Interview with Ben Steverman, www.bloomberg.com. July 26, 2010.

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• I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.

  Nelly Ben Hayoun

  Impact, Frustrated, Answers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.' What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, 'You can't eat your way out of being hungry!' 'You can't water your way out of drought!' 'You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!' 'You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!' Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil? It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.

  Ann Coulter

  Twilight, Mean, Sleep

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• The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

  Robin Roberts

  Running, Absurdity Of Life, Careers

  "Robin Roberts MDS: ‘GMA’ Co-Host Announces She Has Bone Marrow" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week.

  Billie Jean King

  Fun, Children, Team

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• During the season, it's a lot of maintaining your fitness, so in the winter time is when the main work is done. During the season, I just try to maintain my speed with different types of drills with my trainer. I also work on some muscles. If there's ever any injuries during races, then I'll focus a lot of my time on the muscle recovery.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Recovery, Winter, Race

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• More drills for poor readers do not work.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Poor, Reader

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• I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for an enormous red pen with a wide felt tip. "Stand here and we'll see how you've done," she said, which is sort of like a dentist handing you a mirror and saying, "Sit here and watch while I drill a hole in your tooth.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mirrors, The End Of The Day, Bakers

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, Addiction, Anwr

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• We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

  Marc Singer

  Fire, Ordinary, Woods

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• When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you've learned in your drills are better than your opponent's. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.

  Bob Pettit

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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• If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course for years and you will naturally reach the profoundest levels. To know if water is hot or cold you must taste it yourself.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Years, Water, Secret

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• Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Exercise, Night

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

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• Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Heart, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Modern Library

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• You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

  John Newcombe

  Friday, School, Years

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• I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Heart, Light

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• We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

  Russ Feingold

  Issues, Doors, Special

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• The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

  Leonard Woolf

  Funny, Pain, Dental Work

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• In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it

  Jerry Sloan

  Basketball, Suicide, Years

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• People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

  Theodore Levitt

  People, Deep Thought, Want

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• Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Thinking, Use, Regulation

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• I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

  Stuart Appleby

  Mom, Dad, Home

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

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• Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Rocks, Wish

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