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• Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Cake, House, Cottages

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• We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Airports, Filled Out, Knives

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

  Donatella Versace

  Mother, Florence, Degrees

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

  Jesse Ventura

  Gun, Gun Control, Mexico

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 17, 2012.

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• When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.

  Tina Turner

  Mother, Father, Dirty

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2005.

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• There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Children, Lost Love, Discipline

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• Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Law, Discipline

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

  Evan Davis

  Behaviour, Cheat, Accepted

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• Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

  Marianne de Pierres

  Way, Graves, Dangerous

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• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  Lady Gaga

  Diets

  "Lady Gaga Discusses Weight Gain, Reveals Culinary Guilty Pleasures". Interview with Elvis Duran, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Eye, Parent

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.89, Vintage Canada

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• It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Way, Citizens

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• For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Book, Talking

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• The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.

  Derek Jeter

  Yankees, Hair, Mustache

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• You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

  Michael Moore

  Self, Defense, Humans

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• I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

  Liam Neeson

  Parent, Pushovers, Knows

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• Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

  Gene Tierney

  Son, Spending, Chaplin

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Shining, Energy

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Walking and overcoming by faith is not easy. For one thing, the dimension of time constantly constrains our perspective. Likewise, the world steadily tempts us. No wonder we are given instructive words from Jesus about the narrowness and the straightness of the only path available to return home: “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). And then he said, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Jesus laid down strict conditions.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Home

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• Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason.

  Simon Sinek

  Halloween, Favorite Day, Years

  "Look On The Bright Side: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I try my best to eat healthy the majority of the time so that I feel good and have more energy. I am so passionate about eating healthily, I am actually certified in nutrition. I try my best to eat organic whenever possible, but it's important not to be too strict about it. Just do the best you can.

  Miranda Kerr

  Feel Good, Healthy, Important

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• Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Mom, Growing Up, Said

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

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• My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

  Katy Perry

  Ideas, Parent, World

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• People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  "Katy Perry: Confessions of a Pop Princess" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 20, 2012.

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• During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Breakfast

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”, p.80, Hachette UK

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