Middle Quotes

• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Practice

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• Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad,
  I like to keep poking around in it.
  I like to get into the middle of a relationship,
  to explore the subtle places.

  Paul Mazursky

  Funny Relationship, Subtle, Situation

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• A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Democracy, Middle East, Administration

  "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Hervey Allen

  Age, Five Senses, 20th Birthday

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

  Ric Ocasek

  Country, Song, Writing

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• I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

  Betty Buckley

  Thinking, Class, White

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• As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

  Jasmine Guy

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

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• Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

  Arianna Huffington

  Stay Strong, Games, Class

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• The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

  Paula Cole

  Darkness, Zenith, Used

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• When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

  Sarah Zettel

  Inspirational, Dance, Reading

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• Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

  Francis Parkman

  Two Sides, House, Leaving

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.352, Library of America

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• The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Lasts, Firsts, Movement

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• Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

  Tom Daschle

  Responsibility, People, Requirements

  "Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, Rep. Dick Gephardt Extend Hand of Bipartisanship to President-Elect George W. Bush". www.cnn.com. December 14, 2000.

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• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  Aaron Neville

  Technology, Play, People

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• The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

  Kenny Marchant

  Oil, Issues, Energy

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• Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Cutting, America, Illustration

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• Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

  Andy Partridge

  Fear, France, Eating

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• This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

  Jeri Ryan

  Movie, New Day, Actors

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.

  Hal Sutton

  Sports, Long, Losing

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• And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

  Harry Mathews

  Years, Navy, Sophomore

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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• People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

  Ace Frehley

  Hate, People, Knows

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• As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

  Henry Adams

  Class, America, Boredom

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams”, p.200, Harvard University Press

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• When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

  Sergio Aragones

  Grief, Sadness, Train Of Thought

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• I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

  Rick Larsen

  Class, Support, Relief

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• To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Children, Team

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