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• Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Coward, Fence

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• We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

  Janice Mirikitani

  War, Believe, Yellow

  Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press

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• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Believe, Gun, Cities

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• War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Gun, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.88, Seven Stories Press

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• I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense.

  John Nettles

  Thinking, Blood, Silent

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing. I don’t think I liked fishing. I mean, you had to sit quietly and still, but I enjoyed the ride. And it was fun, it was fun. I mean, as I say, you didn’t go around lugging a deep sense of resentment. We knew, yes, we were deprived. It wasn’t the same thing for white kids, but it was as full a life as you could make it. I mean, we made toys for ourselves with wires, making cars, and you really were exploding with joy!

  Desmond Tutu

  Fun, Father, Mean

  "Forging Equality in South Africa". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly.

  Rosie DiManno

  Errors, News, Nuance

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• There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

  Moss Hart

  Family, Piano, Umbilical Cord

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

  Louise Erdrich

  Understanding, Brain, Sparks

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• Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

  Christine Baranski

  Errors, Acting, Slim

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

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• Step Up doesn't have to hide anything. These are actually moves that people do. It just so happens that dancers are superheroes. People think there is a lot of wire work or camera tricks, but that's just not the case.

  Stephen Boss

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• It's good to know the guy who's holding onto your wire is someone you trust and you know he's not going to let you fall.

  Jack Reynor

  Fall, Guy, Holding On

  Source: collider.com

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• I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

  Idris Elba

  Thinking, Government, Cities

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• There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

  Albert Finney

  Light, Ballet, Might

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Morning, Stars

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Everybody has a stunt except me. Every single person has a stunt, but I don't have a stunt, there's nothing. No wire, no pulling. I try to get in on the danger, but there's nothing.

  Johnny Simmons

  Trying, Danger, Single Person

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.

  Nik Wallenda

  Relaxed

  "Nik Wallenda Niagara Falls Walk: Tightrope-Walker Completes First-Ever Feat" by Neale Gulley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

  Pico Iyer

  Car, Changing Your Life, Happens

  "Want to be happy? Slow down". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. January 23, 2015.

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• I went to New York to be born again. And when the train plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Tunnels, Cities

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• I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

  Donal Logue

  Fans, Shields, Huge

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview TERRIERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Men, Ostriches

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

  Marge Piercy

  Ideas, Perfection, Grace

  Marge Piercy (1982). “Parti-colored Blocks for a Quilt”, p.92, University of Michigan Press

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• From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  Pat Conroy

  Journey, Revelations, Reader

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• Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

  Luther Burbank

  Change, Truth, Freedom

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