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• BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Beautiful, Amy, Reeds

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• If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Children, Night

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• Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except that his pale skinny legs are visible, and his arms hug plastic bags. I can see the back of Lacey's legs beneath her dress, her calves tight in midstride. I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

  John Green

  Running, Dark, Wind

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• Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Morning, Fall, Night

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• Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.

  John Green

  Believe, Cutting, Ideas

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, 2008.

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• A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.

  Robert Muchamore

  Running, Children, Real

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• The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.

  John Green

  Dark, Order, Wizards

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.145, A&C Black

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• We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  War, Islands, Said

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.83, Random House

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• Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Sight, Eagles

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• My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

  Emma Forrest

  Mean, Years, People

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• In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed.

  Martin Ryle

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Science

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• During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.

  Martin Ryle

  War, Science, Engineering

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• I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.

  Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

  Military, Marine, Men

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• If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace. . . . We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

  William R. Looney III

  Country, Military, Blow

  "A Lot For Access" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 1996.

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• A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

  Alain de Botton

  Matter, Moments, Significant

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• Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Country, Air, Long Ago

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• We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Horse, Views, Drug

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• I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

  Liev Schreiber

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

  Roger McGough

  War, Hands, Glee

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• When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

  Steve Young

  Play, San Francisco, Quarterback

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• If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

  Lawrence Lessig

  People, Three, Culture

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

  Joe Royle

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

  Will Arnett

  Nominations, Coming Out, Wells

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• I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life. I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

  Michael Jai White

  Color, White, Black

  "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Chocolate, Liberty, London

  “Power Shopping: ‘Revenger’s Ashley Madekwe Reveals her Fasion Favorites” by Lyndsay Flans, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 29, 2012.

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