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• Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue ribbon reciting the vernacular poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in particular "Little Brown Baby."

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Baby, Teacher, Blue

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Writing, Learning, Mean

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• The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.

  Ray LaHood

  Moving, Blue, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or gold medal for living someone else's life, for fulfilling someone else's dreams. It's doesn't make you happy. You just end up with a life that's not yours.

  Gabrielle Union

  Dream, Live Life, Blue

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser or a secretary. I couldn't stomach it. Later on, when I fell in love with my husband and had children, that's when my mother's earthiness or sense of femaleness kicked in.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  1975 Humboldt's Gift.

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• I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

  Hank Stuever

  Grandma, Holiday, Thinking

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Son, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.92, Gibbs Smith

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• As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Drinking, Character

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• The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies

  Hanshan

  Moon, Clouds, Bridges

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• As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Humor, Firsts

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The hippopotamus”, Random House (UK)

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• When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Thinking, Ties, May

  Source: www.choprafoundation.org

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• Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

  Don Marquis

  Cat, Zest, Sea

  1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.

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• [The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual.

  Danny Lyon

  Running, Country, Couple

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• I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

  Scott Walker

  Kids, Iran, Yellow

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

  Dustin Clare

  Thinking, Organization, White

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• I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

  Edmond Rostand

  Cutting, Men, Ideas

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• He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

  Darynda Jones

  Cake, Desire, Razors

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.149, Macmillan

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• Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Eye, Drawing

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt. And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.

  Wendy Mass

  Eye, Hair, Hands

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• He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck

  Ilona Andrews

  Laughing, Faces, Necks

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.15, Penguin

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• The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

  Matt Taibbi

  Phones, Games, Age

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.213, Spiegel & Grau

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• Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Writing, Wind, Together

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