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• High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.

  Chris Colfer

  School, Ideas, Scar

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• One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Revolution, Conformity, Rebellion

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• I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

  Sue Wicks

  Basketball, Sports, Believe

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• Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys who was just like, "You know, look, when I was seven I had a six-pack, and it just never went away."

  Max Greenfield

  People, Guy, Wish

  "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

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• For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.

  Max Greenfield

  Girl, Real, Guy

  "The Max Factor". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Determination, Gun, Race

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

  Lynn Barber

  Thinking

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• Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sarcastic, Country

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• All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.

  Martin Amis

  Father, Style, Adults

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.120, Random House

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• The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Men, Energy

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

  Mark Zandi

  Government, Important, Times Of Crisis

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• When I first got to L.A., I was stretching $20 a week, waiting tables, and I did that for about six months. I didn't mind it at all, I was really happy for that experience, but it made me really get aggressive about what I want. I've been doing this since I was eight, and never considered doing anything else, so I really had to kick it into gear.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Eight, Waiting, Mind

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• I'm an aggressive person.

  Jack Abramoff

  Persons

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• I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

  Magic Johnson

  Sports, Perseverance, Persistence

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• He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Peace, Paris, Special

  Song: He Went To Paris, 1973

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• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  Vince Flynn

  Football, Team, Offense And Defense

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• I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.

  Jhene Aiko

  Thinking, Feelings, Should

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• I'm not better when I force shots. I'm going to take them as they come. They are really sagging in there, trying to take me out of the game. It's my job to find guys. I want to be aggressive and take my shots, but I can't force them.

  Tim Duncan

  Jobs, Games, Guy

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• Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

  Nick Denton

  Company, Jonah, Publishers

  "Gawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to pick fight with BuzzFeed" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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• When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

  Fred Durst

  Different, Heavy, Mellow

  "Fred Durst says Limp Bizkit are about bring on the Gravy" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. November 3, 2005.

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• I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

  Nick Clegg

  Support, Accountability, Freedom Of Speech

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• We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Development, Blame

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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• He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Philosophy, Hate

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.

  Darrel Ray

  Political, Religion, Islam

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• The Situation's style is like super obnoxiously aggressive.

  Pauly D

  Style, Situation

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