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• Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.

  Steven Gerrard

  Heart, Player, Careers

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• Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

  Caitlin Moran

  Self Harm, Needs, World

  Caitlin Moran (2014). “How to Build a Girl”, p.216, Random House

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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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• I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Phobia, Needles

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jasmine Guinness, www.theguardian.com. January 05, 2008.

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• Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.

  Irving Kristol

  Powerful, Military, Heart

  "Congress Bi-Weekly". Book published by the American Jewish Congress, 1973.

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• It's not what I want, Trish. It's what you want. It's what you need. And even though we're opponents tonight in the 6 person, tag team table match, I see how you look at me. You could cut the sexual tension between is with a knife. So I just want to let you know no matter the outcome, I'm always available to give to a healthy dose of Vitamin C.

  Chris Jericho

  Team, Cutting, Wwe

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• When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Two, Sticks

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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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• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  William Ernest Henley

  Sweet, Strong, Dark

  William Ernest Henley, “Before”

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• If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

  Mark Kingwell

  Pulling, Ifs, Right Now

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• Never lick a steak knife.

  Dave Barry

  Steak

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• The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

  Glenn Close

  Kitchen, Way, Don't Mess With Me

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• I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

  Kajol

  Years, Skins, Botox

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• Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Home, House

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• A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.

  Robin Williams

  War, Heart, Cutting

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• A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Doctors, Doe

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• Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

  Gilbert Highet

  Children, Character, Fire

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

  Molly Ivins

  Fighting, Texas, Punishment

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage

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• We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

  Georges Duhamel

  Soul, Flesh, Debate

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

  Paul Engle

  Boys, Terrible, Jew

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.153, University of Iowa Press

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• In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Husband, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.192, Da Capo Press

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• A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

  William Gurnall

  Gun, Men, Sin

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• I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Dream, Names

  Song: I Shall Be Free--No. 10

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• First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.

  Justin Quek

  Simple, Knowing, Skills

  "Franco-Asian exotica on Singapore skyline". Interview with Daniel Magnowski, www.reuters.com. August 23, 2011.

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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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