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• The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

  Henry Rollins

  Crush, Rocks, Feelings

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• Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

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• If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

  John Eldredge

  Growing Up, Warrior, Boys

  John Eldredge (2002). “Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

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• What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Artist

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I let people off the hook too easily.

  William Boyd

  People

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• And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

  Lord Byron

  Should Have, Fishing, Vices

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2252, Delphi Classics

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• I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.

  Maggie Smith

  Grateful, Thinking, Roles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I caught a tremendous fish
  and held him beside the boat
  half out of water, with my hook
  fast in a corner of his mouth.
  He didn't fight.
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  I stared and stared
  and victory filled up
  the little rented boat
  from the pool of bilge
  where oil had spread a rainbow
  around the rusted engine
  to the bailer rusted orange,
  the sun-cracked thwarts
  the oarlocks on their strings,
  the gunnels-until everything
  was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
  And I let the fish go.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Fighting, Orange, Filled Up

  "The Fish" l. 74 (1946)

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• In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.

  Kamala Harris

  Doe, Needs, Want

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

  Jamie Waylett

  Rap, Keyboards, Program

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• People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.

  Lamorne Morris

  People, Judging, Hook Up

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• I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

  Mary Oliver

  Looks

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• Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars. Taxpayers will be on the hook for spending that will stimulate the debt, stimulate the growth of government, but will do little to stimulate jobs or the economy.

  Christopher Bond

  Baby, Jobs, Government

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• My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

  Carrot Top

  Real, Names, Gone

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• I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.

  Butterfly Boucher

  Song, Thinking, Guitar

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• There was a part, you know, obviously there was a part of the whole I military experience that you know like hooks right into the whole boyhood experience that that you know most American boys have growing up, you know, which is proving your manhood by proving how hard you are, by proving that you can take it.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Growing Up, Military, Boys

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• Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind

  David Ogilvy

  Bird, Mind, Trying

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• Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Cells, Feelings

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• [Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth and says to the casting director, "Wow, your lip even hooks down like mine does." Then he looked at the casting director and nodded, and I guess that was the nod of saying, "Hire this kid." So yeah, I have a really crooked mouth. They don't work, but I can feel everything.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Kids, Laughing, Wow

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm not going to go in and get some hooks from some niggas who don't know me, or know what I'm about.

  Donnis

  Know Me, Knows

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if you do happen to spin it, it won't slice or hook 'cause there's no atmosphere to make it turn.

  Alan Shepard

  Golf, Atmosphere, Balls

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• He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

  Chris Murphy

  Meaningful, Legislation, Sandy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

  J. Cole

  Song, Writing, Good Day

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