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• When I used to do the action scenes, I would have to play it rough. If you hit an actress accidentally, she would usually take it on the chin and say, `Don't do that again.' But with the guys, they would put ice on it, take a 20-minute break and ask for x-rays. It was unbelievable.

  Jessica Alba

  Ice, Play, Guy

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• We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

  Marc Rotenberg

  Promise, Information, Unfair

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• I was motivating him every time. When it was break point I was telling him 'hit a good return because you know you are gonna get many more kisses' [on Jamie Murray

  Jelena Jankovic

  Kissing, Return, Jamie

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• At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.

  Bob Menendez

  Cutting, Addiction, Trying

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• There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

  Jack Straw

  Summer, Leader, Certainty

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• Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

  Earl Browder

  Political, Growth, Way

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• Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.

  Chris Witty

  Talking, People, Silence

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• I've never seen anything like that before. Usually when home teams break up no-hit bids, the crowd cheers the hit and cheers the pitcher. I've never seen them boo before.

  Corey Koskie

  Cheer, Team, Home

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• Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.

  John Baldwin Buckstone

  Party, Slave, Made

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• A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

  Charles Boyer

  Italian, Men, Break Off

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• I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Children, Luck, Wish

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• The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

  Herbert Kalmus

  Order, Secret, Court

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• Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

  Marita Golden

  Believe, Survival, Tomorrow

  Marita Golden (1987). “Migrations of the Heart”

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• Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Past, Greatness

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• When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Rubble, Barriers

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• I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you

  Jewel

  Break Up, Ex Boyfriend, I Know You Love Me

  Song: You Were Meant for Me

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• Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

  Jewel

  Break Up, Dream, Ex Boyfriend

  Song: You Were Meant for Me, Album: Pieces Of You

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• The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Softball, Sports

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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• Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

  Robert E. Howard

  Civilization, Skins, Roaring

  Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.

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• This bread I break was once the oat,
  This wine upon a foreign tree
  Plunged in its fruit;
  Man in the day or wind at night
  Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

  Dylan Thomas

  Wine, Night, Men

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrat Party sees fit.

  David Letterman

  Party, Believe, Government

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• To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

  John Muir

  Lying, Thinking, Silence

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• The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.

  Bayard Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Healing

  Bayard Taylor (1873). “Lars: A Pastoral of Norway”, p.144

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• HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit.
  LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her.
  HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Girl, Country, Mean

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• Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

  Sam Rayburn

  Loneliness, Heart, Men

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