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• I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Thinking, High Heels, Pockets

  "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. November 2010.

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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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• I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

  Charles Frazier

  Beautiful, Father, School

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• Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Relationship, Baby, Cutting

  Song: I'm On Fire, Album: Born In The U.S.A., 1984

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• Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Reality, Men, Dollars

  Song: A Country Boy Can Survive

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• The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

  David Coverdale

  Successful, Criticism, Dine

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• A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.

  Peter Guber

  Party, Cutting, Gun

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• When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

  Famke Janssen

  Would Be, Scared, Imagine

  "Famke Janssen and Liam Neeson have the family holiday from hell in Taken 2". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. October 5, 2012.

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• I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Dark, Evil, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Hate, Kind, Horror

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• When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

  Simon Newcomb

  Prayer, Men, Fifteen

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Science, White

  Lewis Carroll (1929). “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces”

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• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

  Agatha Christie

  Shining, Confusing, Naked

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.

  Henry Glassford Bell

  Jealous, Cutting, Wife

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• Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Privilege, Used

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--the
  choice is mine.
  I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.
  I am grace.
  I plunge in the knife.
  This is my sacrifice--
  I am the monster.

  Bree Despain

  Angel, Sacrifice, Fire

  Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.5, Egmont UK

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• The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.

  James Marsters

  Pride, Differences, Jaguars

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• Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Pigs, Giving, Killing

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• Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

  Arman

  Design, Entrepreneur, Kitchen

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• I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Track

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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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• People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Children, Selfish

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• Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

  Marissa Mayer

  Home, Army, Simple

  "The Beauty of Simplicity", www.fastcompany.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Selfish, People, Revolution

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• A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

  Barten Holyday

  Men, Oysters, Law

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