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• There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

  Joan Chen

  Thinking, Play, People

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

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• When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Growing Up, House, Magic

  Josef Helfenstein, Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober (1991). “Parkett”

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• When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

  Neil Young

  Hate, People, Thank You God

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• A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

  Orlando Bloom

  Girl, Dream, Teenage

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• Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Looks, Film

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• Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Iphone, Laptops, Folks

  "Dan Aykroyd: Ghostbusters 3 Should Film By Next Year". Interview with Dan Milano, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Men, Weather

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• Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Tools, Said, Diplomacy

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• Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

  Al Franken

  Apples, Iphone, Smartphones

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• The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan and if people think I am strange they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

  David Icke

  Girl, Sports, Queens

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

  Sid Waddell

  Trying, Kangaroos, Trampolines

  "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.

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• For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

  Donatella Versace

  Safety Pins, Soul, Rebellion

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

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• The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

  Emma Thompson

  Important, Different, Hiv

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• I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Angel, Hands, Waiting

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• The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Gaps, Findings, Indian

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• When I first started wearing wigs, I didn't know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that's not the most embarrassing thing... but you have to use bobby pins.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Anchors, Wigs, Use

  "Behind the Brush: Wiggin’ Out with Sherri Shepherd". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. December 13, 2012.

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• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Block, Believe, Class

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• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

  Frances O'Grady

  Husband, Government, Appreciate

  "The derisory pensions offer hits women workers hard" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Doe, Flags

  “Eats Roadkill, Speaks Danish” by Amy Wallace, www.esquire.com. February 28, 2006.

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• I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

  Roger Moore

  Good Luck, People, Comfort

  "From his first job on the milkround to life as a Monaco millionaire: the late Sir Roger Moore on the subject of money". Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 24, 2017.

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• The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Numbers, People, Perfect

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• I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up.

  Cindy Margolis

  Numbers, America, Done

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• I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Moving, Writing, Artist

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• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

  Broken, Body, Bones

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• But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

  Wyndham Lewis

  Eye, Silence, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis, Collected Poems and Plays”, New York : Persea Books

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