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• I want to give up being a bullet I've been a bullet too long The question is Can you give up being a killer?

  John Agard

  Giving Up, Long, Want

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• Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Intellectual, Watches

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.98, Main Street Books

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• People ask me what the appeal of 'True Blood' is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn't become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets.

  Michelle Forbes

  Thinking, Blood, People

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• Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Spiritual, Needs, Cost

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• The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his dream now? When is a change going to come - as Sam Cooke said - for blacks in America? Anyone who does tell the truth gets a bullet in the head, y'know what I mean?

  Shane MacGowan

  Dream, Kings, War

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.

  Colin Firth

  Two, America, Violence

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

  Harry Chapin

  Numbers, Differences, Feelings

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

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• The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Killers, Strange, Awareness

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.89, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

  Maggie Grace

  Thinking, Space, Film

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• There must come a time when the bullets will run out

  Susanna Clarke

  Running

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• Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

  Mark Zandi

  Maturity, Years, Three

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• She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.

  Bob Dylan

  Romantic, Eye, Her Eyes

  Song: I Wanna Be Your Lover

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• A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first.

  Robert Greenwald

  Believe, Moving, Heart

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

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• If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

  Andrew Cuomo

  People, Battle, Citizens

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• There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

  Scott Adams

  Clock Is Ticking, Clock Ticking, Deadline

  "'Dilbert' creator on working at home, getting his voice back". www.cnn.com. November 7, 2007.

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• I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

  Phil Collins

  Thinking, Belts, Alamo

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• The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can't breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that's where I aimed it.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Eye, Gun

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• The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.

  Robert Bork

  Thinking, Always Arguing, People

  "Advocates: Point and Counterpoint, Laurence Tribe and Robert Bork Debate the Framers' Spacious Terms". Miriam Bensimhorn, Life Magazine (Special Issue), Fall 1991.

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• Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place.

  George Gascoigne

  Lighting

  George Gascoigne (1969). “The Complete Works: To the reverende divines”

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• Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

  Tommy Douglas

  Boys, Comfort, Source

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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• I don't think the Democrats need a silver bullet.

  Jonathan Chait

  Thinking, Needs, Silver

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.

  Michael Badnarik

  Men, Gun, People

  "Good to be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• Real bullets are for keeps, and concealment is not necessarily good cover.

  Dick Couch

  Real, Concealment

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• Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

  LeCrae

  Hurt, Pain, Numb

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• New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.

  Carmine Gallo

  Brain, Important, Research

  Carmine Gallo (2010). “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience”, McGraw Hill Professional

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