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• I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

  Rebecca Loos

  Guy, Fancy, Embarrassed

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• I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

  Loretta Young

  Mirrors, Quitting, Length

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• I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

  Caryl Rivers

  Writing, Typewriters, Chairs

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• I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Perception, Body, Speak

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.173, Routledge

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• Everyone goes through a hard time in their life, they just don't have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I'm lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself. Now I love me, so I'm OK.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Hard Times, Media, People

  "Interview: Kirsten Dunst on how Simon Pegg made her laugh" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. October 3, 2008.

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• Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

  Frankie Avalon

  People, House, President

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• Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

  Bill Nighy

  Girl, Memories, Fall

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• Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Writing, Messages, Email

  "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.

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• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

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• I promise to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back

  Sidney Crosby

  Play, Names, Promise

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• After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Wife

  "One-line genius" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Children, Fear, Dark

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• Both parties accept this vision. But we can reach it only if we move rapidly and in parallel on all fronts. The so-called 'sequential' approach has failed.

  Kofi Annan

  Party, Moving, Vision

  "Annan to Iraq: Let inspectors return". cnn.com. September 11, 2002.

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• Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Infantry

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• This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Military, War, Struggle

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.931, Best Books on

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• We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Science, Space

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Girl, Children, War

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• A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, What If

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• You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

  Patsy Cline

  Singing, Cameras, Songwriting

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• There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.

  David Letterman

  Thanksgiving, New York, Turkeys

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• On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  Strong, Children, War

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• I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, Doors, Hands

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Autumn, Winter

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• We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Doors, Method, Back Doors

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• I arrived at my hut in Beverly Hills just in time to keep real estate men from plotting off and selling my front yard. They will sell you anything or anybody's in the world as long as they can get a first payment... It used to be only Iowa that was out here but now they have three or four adjoining states interested and they are here, too. Real estate agents - you never saw as many in your life; they are as thick as bootleggers.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Men, Iowa

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