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• I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

  John Hurt

  Party, Cowboy, Acting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

  Clarence Darrow

  Motivational, Law, Clothes

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• If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Needs, Alternatives

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

  Andrew Wiles

  Thinking, Understanding, Problem

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• Canada and space are a natural fit.

  Marc Garneau

  Europe, Space, Canada

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• I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

  Les Baxter

  Song, Way, Aim

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• A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

  Nick Rahall

  Children, Mistake, Believe

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• But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Men, Thinking, Bombs

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

  Hans Hofmann

  Color, Together, Wheels

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• I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Features

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Youth, Ready

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

  Roberta Williams

  Beautiful, Travel, Adventure

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• I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Death, Humor

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• Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

  April Winchell

  Christmas, Lonely, Children

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• None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

  Mary Astell

  Believe, Men, Self

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

  Horace

  Men, Shoes, Stories

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Dresses, Body, Train

  Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

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• To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast

  Lee Haney

  Beautiful, Real, Empty

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• He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Anger, Passion, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

  Prince Andrew

  Mother, Staff, Monarchs

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

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• We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

  Judith Martin

  Positive, Society, Belief

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• A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Way, Holes

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• I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Growing Up, Freak, Felt

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Trying, Roles

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