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• There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Fighting, Greatness

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• I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

  Kara Walker

  People, Southern, Next

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• Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

  Hafez

  Beautiful, Running, Heart

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• Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It’s also where the knives are kept.

  Laurie Penny

  Girl, Thinking, Kitchen

  FaceBook post by Laurie Penny from Mar 08, 2016

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• Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges's wisecracking, sardonic son, Bolaño has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth, and the great lost hope.

  Stacey D'Erasmo

  Son, Wicked, Woven

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• Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you.

  Conan O'Brien

  Night, Television, Half

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• I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance.

  Melinda Clarke

  Intense Training, Hands, Want

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• A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Thinking, Long, People

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• I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

  Redd Foxx

  White, People, Black

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• People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  People, Secret, Needs

  "Secrets of a Skinny Chef" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Editors, Breakfast

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.98, Xist Publishing

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• Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

  Hannah Woolley

  Eggs, Mouths

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• Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Piano, Shooting

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• Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

  Bill Watterson

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Naked, World

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [335]

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• Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

  Eugenio Montale

  Love You, Eye, Light

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• . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Knowing, Mind

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing

  Jimmy Dore

  Stupid

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• A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

  Lloyd Paul Stryker

  Justice, Battle, Trials

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• PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Elephants, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'

  Erin Gray

  Drawing, Body, Messages

  "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.

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• The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Brain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2821, Delphi Classics

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• Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

  Lloyd Grove

  Army, Google, Research

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• Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Gun, Insecurity, Poverty

  "I just wanted to kill" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

  Julia Child

  Ideas, Fearless, Kitchen

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