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• It's easy to be quick on the draw when no one has got real bullets.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Real, Easy, Draws

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• Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

  Larry Miller

  Thinking, Ideas, Differences

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• I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

  Kathy Griffin

  Hate, Writing, Style

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• There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  United States, September, Silver

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• We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Shoes

  "Lopez: Rockets can win with spin" by John P. Lopez, www.chron.com. April 15, 2003.

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• First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Thinking, Firsts

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

  Norman Mailer

  Blow, America, Cells

  1963 The Presidential Papers,'Fourth Presidential Paper'.

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• Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Novelists, Fiction, Letters

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

  Louis Leakey

  Water, Necks, Killing

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• We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

  Malcolm X

  Pockets, Target, Ballots

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Animal, Ems, Use

  'A Bad Child's Book of Beasts' (1896) 'The Hippopotamus'.

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• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  Malcolm X

  Expression, Use, Cotton

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• I'll be your number one with a bullet.

  Pete Wentz

  Numbers

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• All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.

  Alan Carr

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Effort

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• Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there's certainly brain damage," Oliver said. "It will pass. His brain's the least fragile thing about him." "You say the nicest things," Myrin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. "Marry me.

  Rachel Caine

  Boys, Hands Up, Brain

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• You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own

  Leif Enger

  Memories, Lying, Watches

  Leif Enger (2009). “So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel”, p.143, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Believe, Taken

  "Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker". Comedy, Documentary, 1999.

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• Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Teacher, School, Government

  "The West Wing". www.imdb.com. 1999–2006.

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• For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

  Winston Churchill

  Air, Flesh, Firsts

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.

  Veronica Roth

  Dark, Men, Fire

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• Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

  C.C. Hunter

  Band, Thanks, Aids

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• A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Bombs, Computer, Dangerous

  "House targets cybercriminals". www.wired.com. June 16, 2002.

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• Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

  Elizabeth I

  Cheer, Want, Monarchy

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• Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further.

  George MacDonald

  Add, Powder, Results

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.2779, e-artnow

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