Quotes with cut-throats

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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Ben Carson One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • J. B. Priestley Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Robert Anthony Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Aaron Carter People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Jean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • John Berger Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
    Magic (2007) Girls in Their Summer Clothes
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bruce Springsteen Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Bruno Maag The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Bill Haywood The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.
    Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.
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  • Thomas Carlyle The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Buford The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Gamal Abdel Nasser The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
    Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Egyptian president and general (1918 - 1970)
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  • Bob Barr The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Margaret Mead The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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