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• No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?

  Kyan Douglas

  Hair, Noses, Want

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

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• I know a little about Hack (Wilson) because his picture is next to my locker. I am lucky to be there at the right time. People will now remember two guys, Hack Wilson and myself, and the season is not over yet.

  Sammy Sosa

  Two, People, Guy

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• If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

  Al Franken

  Secret, Want, Fingerprints

  "Sen. Al Franken: iPhone Fingerprint Scanner Raises ‘Significant Privacy Questions’" by Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Style, Excellence, Certain

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.335, e-artnow

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• I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

  Chris Rock

  Overrated

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• Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Speech, Fancy

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Party, Teaching, Blood

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• Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

  Tom Christiansen

  Idiot, Window, Break

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• The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

  Che Guevara

  Art, Rebel, Tools

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• Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Fun, Defense

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• We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, War, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

  Alice Cooper

  Insanity, Trying, Balls

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• I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Games, People, Goes On

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• I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

  Mark Rydell

  Agents, Als, Knows

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Challenges, Vampire

  "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.

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• I'm being unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters.

  Rand Paul

  Bunch

  "'This Week' Transcript: Dan Pfeiffer, Sen. Rand Paul, and Nate Silver". "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", abcnews.go.com. November 3, 2013.

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• I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Engineering, Years, Apples

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• If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

  Dennis Rodman

  World, Wanted, Ifs

  "Dennis Rodman Opens Up About 'The Interview,' Invites Seth Rogen to North Korea (Exclusive)" by Borys Kit, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 24, 2015.

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• A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

  Samuel Johnson

  Block, Cutting, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.414

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• When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Meat, Way, Clean Slate

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

  Aimee Bender

  Writing, Pages, Best Work

  Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Horse, Italian

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1961). “Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien”

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• You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Meat, Want, Way

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.

  Harry Chapin

  Emergencies, Cases, No Money

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• Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

  William Empson

  Men, Sea, Iron

  William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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