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• I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Baby, Horse, Team

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• A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

  Stephen King

  Book, Giving, Water

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognise the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump UNICEF.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Light, Names, People

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• The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

  George William Russell

  Running, Men, Rivals

  "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

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• Whenever I go into Bloomingdales, I head to the womens shoe section and think, Hmm, maybe Ill get my next girlfriend a pair of those. I always buy my mom Louboutins or Jimmy Choos for her birthday. I have a pretty good sense of style, all in all. Once I figure out a woman, I know what she should wear - which comes in handy when you have a mom and girlfriends. You can always make them happy with a nice bag or a pair of pumps.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Mom, Girlfriend, Nice

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• Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

  Parminder Nagra

  Stuff, Film, Cardio

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Heart, Men, Important

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5765, e-artnow

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• Just like you could dump oil into the Cuyahoga in the 60s and let someone else foot the bill, today you can pump CO2 into the atmosphere and let the whole world foot the bill.

  Ramez Naam

  Oil, Feet, Atmosphere

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

  Pamela Anderson

  Stars, Drama, Rocks

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Jobs, Smell

  "JACK WELCH: 'If You Have A Reputation As A Big, Stiff Bureaucracy, You're Stuck'" by Kim Bhasin, www.businessinsider.com. February 27, 2012.

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• If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pride, then perhaps. But I don't think anybody living there was begging for multiple 40,000-seat venues to be plopped down in the city.

  Gary Hustwit

  Team, Pride, Thinking

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

  Lawrence Welk

  Father, Musical, Instruments

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

  Stephen King

  Book, Land, Giving

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

  David Morrell

  Military, Kids, Kentucky

  David Morrell (2011). “First Blood”, p.13, David Morrell

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• Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Writing, Intelligent

  "Player Piano". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1952.

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• I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

  Michael McKean

  Thinking, Style, Sound

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. September 23, 2005.

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• You wanna be counter-culture? You wanna be a total rebel? Get a job! You wanna be counter-culture, totally alternative, radical? Be a virgin until you get married...to a person of the opposite gender. And then stay married and pump out some kids and pay your taxes and read the Bible, you freak. You'll be just totally a rebel.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jobs, Kids, Opposites

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• I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

  Tracy Morgan

  Book, Kids, Cutting

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• I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo

  Robert Solow

  Zoos, Reading, Blood

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• There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

  George Eliot

  Common Sense, Water, Folks

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.345, George Eliot

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• Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Doctors, Order, Sound

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

  John Sterling

  Lakes, Water, Speech

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.155

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• To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

  Plautus

  Waste, Breaths

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• Before I go to work, I like to pump myself up by crying over my master's degree.

  Jenna Marbles

  Degrees, Cry, Masters

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