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• Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

  Tom Allen

  Stupid, Entrepreneur, Cost

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• People think you're being dishonest because you're just too blunt.

  Holland Roden

  Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Morning, Sorry

  "Tinselworm". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.

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• Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it's a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy.

  Al Gore

  Government, Use, Littles

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.

  Winona Ryder

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. And now he is quick to make allies with the Muslim Brotherhood for tactical reasons as well (though earlier that same administration stoked Islamophobic fear about that very political party).

  Judith Butler

  Sorry, Military, Party

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• If a shop has a lot of sections I'll end up putting my record above the James Blunt CDs since he ripped off my bloody artwork and he's selling millions of records! I try to get people to buy mine accidentally.

  Jamie Lidell

  People, Trying, Selling

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

  Susan Rice

  Eye, Sometimes, Beholder

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am blunt when I want to be.

  Susan Rice

  Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.

  Susan Rice

  Mixtures, Honey, Vinegar

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find yourself losing all of your natural skepticism and your scientific - really scientific - credibility. I'm sorry to be so blunt.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sorry, Perspective, Finding Yourself

  Source: inters.org

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• Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

  Anne Carson

  Mean, Biting, Comfortable

  Source: www.npr.org

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• On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

  Norm MacDonald

  Real, Trying, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• If we blunt Russian efforts now to be aggressive, we may be pleasantly surprised by the policy options that become available to us, in terms of working with a better Russia.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, Effort, May

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.

  Jaron Lanier

  Military, Smart, Technology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might exploit the powers of architecture and urbanism. When addressing urgent situations, whether it's the depletion of the rainforest or abuse of labor, well-meaning people are working with tools, like standards, that seem like very blunt instruments. I am suggesting that spatial variables that are underexploited in governance might add to that repertoire.

  Keller Easterling

  Discipline, People, Abuse

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways. It sets your mind free because you don't have a history with the language. You have to use the most direct way of communication, which is saying what you want to say in the way you can.

  Anna Ternheim

  Communication, Brave, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not. It's never really been my intention; I've never gone out of my way to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm pretty blunt about things.

  Lili Reinhart

  People, Trying, Annoying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

  Jimmy Reid

  Race, Self, Silence

  "The People Speak: Democracy is not a Spectator Sport". Book by Colin Firth (p. 226), September 13, 2012.

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• Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall and when you are starting out you're obviously not the first one cast, so you're trying to fit into a mold. You're quite often not cast as the quirky best friend, but you don't have the experience to be cast as the lead. So it can be really tricky. One of the biggest things is just to get your people, so to speak, your agents and managers to take you seriously. That's one of the issues I had when I came out to LA.

  Tricia Helfer

  People, Quirky, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't think the rhetoric toward President Trump from media sources or media commentators is any worse than what Franklin Roosevelt got from a conservative press in another era. And Roosevelt was, you know, not as blunt as Trump about the press, but, you know, there was an ideological press back then, when we had multiple newspapers in town.

  Tom Rosenstiel

  Thinking, President, Conservative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Telling The Truth, Tell Me The Truth

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

  Elia Suleiman

  People, Coherence, Clarity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

  Seth MacFarlane

  Character, Want

  Source: variety.com

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• I had done an interview with 'Hello' magazine. In it, they asked me if I was going to marry Emily Blunt. Of course, what was I going to say? I said, 'Oh yeah I am going to marry her and I love her and all of this stuff.' It's true. I was making a joke. They said to me, 'Have you asked her?' I said, 'Have I? Maybe I am asking her through the magazine.'

  Michael Buble

  Asking, Done, Magazines

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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