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• Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing? "Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones.

  Derek Landy

  Wire, Red, Emergencies

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

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• Ella, just stay here. Stay safe." "Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson." "What?" Percy said. "Oh... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary—" "ROOOF." "How do you feel about pulling a chariot?

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Numbers, Safety

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• I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Jobs, Tugging, Use

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• The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

  Denis Johnson

  Kissing, First Kiss, World

  Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.27, Granta Books

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• You're your kid's partner, not the person who's pulling all the strings.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, Partners, Strings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People don't scream or swear or pout or sulk when there's compatibility. But most growth occurs when there's incompatibility. When it comes to resilience, when it comes to pulling yourself up when you've fallen down, you don't learn those things when things are going well. You learn those things when you're struggling.

  Ross W. Greene

  Struggle, People, Growth

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think [Donald Trump] does understand that. We talked a great deal about the separation on power and the constitution. And we`re very excited about what he`s doing because what he`s doing is pulling back what we see as unconstitutional executive actions from the past presidents.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, Past, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Betrayal, Suicidal, Gun

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.

  George Harrison

  Want, Conscious, Force

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• I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Fall, Air, Voice

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.31, A&C Black

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• I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

  Hank Aaron

  Running, Home, Kids

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

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• For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.

  Jason Aldean

  Night, Thinking, Eight

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• Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

  Brandon Boyd

  Art, Doe, Like You

  "Incubus front man Brandon Boyd true to his art". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2009.

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• I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Nice, Doors

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  Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

  Arianna Huffington

  Next Week, Energy, Literature

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• My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dream, Sweet, Guy

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• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  Barbara Kruger

  Girl, Artist, Gun

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• Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Usual, Campaigns, Corporations

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.

  Denis Leary

  Sorry, Rights, Government

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• What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking about today and will think about again tomorrow. Your mind doesn't change because you are carrying too large a load. So the mind is caught. It's seized by its own structures. It can't consider different ways of thinking or doing or being or relating. It's all you can do with your psychic energy to keep pulling yourself along with this huge bag that you are dragging behind you.

  Jean Houston

  Thinking, Psychics, Yesterday

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Marriage, Funny Love, Funny Relationship

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• There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Strength, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”

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• Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

  Nick Hornby

  Water, Trying, Want

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• Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Barbie, Tvs

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Weetzie Bat”, p.79, Zondervan

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