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  Burt Lancaster

  Soul, Giants, Mouths

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• The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons.

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Clever, Silly, Agency

  "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

  Jim Bishop

  Children, Stories, Lines

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• There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.

  Tavares Strachan

  Different, Moments, Projects

  "Tavares Strachan's desert explosion" by Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Growth, Shapes, Want

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
  I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
  To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
  We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Play, Crowns

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [95]

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• So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

  Walter Cronkite

  Clever, Men, Thinking

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• I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Should Have, Ducks, Curls

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• But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Champion, Force

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

  Penn Jillette

  Writing, Simple, People

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

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• He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Hands, Long

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• If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

  Olive Schreiner

  Running, Rocks, Blue

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• The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

  Jacques Lacan

  Passion, Psychosis, Community

  Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

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• When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything.

  Henry Rollins

  Eye, Perfect, Steel

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.29, Villard

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• Have you worked here long?" Sebastian asks. Just a few months," I say. "Do you come here a lot?" As if you don't know, Jade. I used to come every day, or, you know, when I could, I'd bring Bo after work. Or just myself." At night sometimes. You'd climb the fence. You'd watch the stars. You'd tilt back your head and look at the sky. You'd think it over, whatever it was.

  Deb Caletti

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Knowing, Air

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• There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

  Lauren Oliver

  Insecure, Awkward, Today

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• "But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them."

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Eye, Opportunity

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

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• The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

  Tom Robbins

  Cheating, Winning, Games

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.226, Bantam

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• I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat. His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic, more amused. "That may be the most enchanting thing I've ever been told after spending the night with a girl.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Sarcastic, Night

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.199, Tammara Webber

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• What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Long, Stories, Answers

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• Yes," Marcus says. "I understand that you are concerned -- that you all are concerned. You had never heard of the Divergent a week ago, and now all that you know is that they are immune to something to which you are susceptible, and that is a frightening thing. But I can assure you that there is nothing to be afraid of, as far as we are concerned." As he speaks, his head tilts and his eyebrows lift in sympathy, and I understand at once why some people like him. He makes you feel that if you just placed everything in his hands, he would take care of it.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Eyebrows, People

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• I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

  Tammara Webber

  Hands, Faces, Praise

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.213, Tammara Webber

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• I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -

  Philippa Gregory

  Children, Love You, Kissing

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Wars of the Roses 2-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen and The White Queen”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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