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• Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Lonely, Cds

  "How I taught my son to love vinyl" by Tony Myers, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2013.

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• Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

  Peter O'Toole

  Kings, Men, Feet

  "Fictional character: Eli Cross". "The Stunt Man", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

  Stana Katic

  Live Life, People, Stories

  "'Castle': Stana Katic Discusses Beckett's Post-Hostage Crisis Revelation and Tolerating the Precinct's New Boss (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 07, 2011.

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• My hair didn't even move an inch and I was in and out of the water. My hair's windproof, waterproof, soccerproof, motocycleproof. I'm not sure if my hair's bulletproof I'm not willin' to try that.

  Pauly D

  Moving, Hair, Water

  "Jersey Shore (TV Series) Just Another Day at the Shore". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• When I was modeling, I had always been told ‘If you could lose a couple of inches, you’ll work so much more,’ or ‘You’ll do so much better if you were just a little bit skinnier.' I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don’t have the perfect body. No one does!

  Shay Mitchell

  Couple, Perfect, Doe

  "Shay Mitchell's Body Peace Advice!". Interview with Macey Hall, www.seventeen.com. July 9, 2013.

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• How can you measure acting in inches?

  James Dean

  Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.

  will.i.am

  Girl, Genius, World

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• All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

  Bea Arthur

  Beautiful, Feet, Blonde

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

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• I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

  Groucho Marx

  Tape

  "Fictional character: S. Quentin Quale". "Go West", 1940.

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• IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!

  Vin Diesel

  Winning, Matter, Furious

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• At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

  Dirk Benedict

  Pulse, Males, Benches

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• I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

  Gloria Swanson

  Stars, Long, Gone

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

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• Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Self, Joy

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• Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.

  Yasser Arafat

  Jerusalem

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• Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Israel, Atmosphere, Soil

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• Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

  Sam Brownback

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.

  Monica Seles

  Moving, Feet, Long

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• Chiropractic makes me feel a few inches taller each time I come out.

  Christie Brinkley

  Chiropractic, Feels

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• If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

  Malcolm X

  Healing, America, Ethnicity

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• I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!' I don't have to go through the thing of paying for it in the next life. I know I'm screwed in the next life.

  Sam Kinison

  Views, Two, Missing

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• The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Gratitude, Women, Writing

  "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, March 15, 2016.

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• Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

  Beth Moore

  Christian, Enemy, Surrender

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• I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

  Jessica Simpson

  Baby, Pregnancy, Ysl

  "Jessica Simpson: I’ll Give Birth In 4-Inch Heels!" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.

  Eduardo C. Corral

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

  Cassandra Danz

  Garden, Eight, Interesting

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