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As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

John F. Kerry

Jobs, Fighting, Years

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In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more interesting discussion. If history is any guide, it's never a good idea to assume that a scientiﬁc problem is cornered.

David Eagleman

Ideas, Views, Interesting

David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.178, Canongate Books

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I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner.

Scarlett Johansson

Creativity, Successful, Thinking

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Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels.

Michael Landon, Jr.

Book, Fascination, Cain

Source: www.beliefnet.com

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Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season.

Rachel Vincent

Girl, Real, Sorority

Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.19, MIRA

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Fine. Whatever. I don’t. Nobody understands your pain, Mae. Because it is so unique! Nobody’s ever loved something so much they would do anything to save it, except for you, Mae. You cornered that market!

Amanda Hocking

Pain, Unique, Fine

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Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

Christopher Lambert

Actors, Want, Range

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I want blood! Two of Aksel’s dogs cornered me near Tondara. They shot me. Those bastards actually shot a hole in my stabilizer the size of Mirala…Aren’t you going to say something? (Syn) Were you hurt? (Nykyrian) No. (Syn) Then why are you having a fit? (Nykyrian) I don’t know, it just felt right. You see why I don’t like being sober? I overreact like an old woman. (He opened his flask, then slammed it down on Nykyrian’s desk.) Figures the damned thing would be empty. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dog, Hurt, Blood

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For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dark, Stalking Me, Tunnels

Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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Now, this is where I draw the line! It's bad enough everybody in town's going to be thinkin' I'm sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although-since she's just about cornered the market on condoms-I don't know how that could have happened. But I will not-you listen to me, Emma!-I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin' a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Sleep, Needs, Lice

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From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

Brad Thor

Mean, Thinking, Purple

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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

Aristophanes

Work, Circles, Four

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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

Uta Hagen

Tickets, Walks, Shows

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It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'

Breckin Meyer

Hate, Reading, Character

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

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The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

Junot Diaz

Ideas, America, Immigration

"Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.

Justin Vernon

Dangerous

Source: pitchfork.com

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I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.

Mare Winningham

Kids, Cities, California

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What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

James M. Barrie

Funny, Math, Science

James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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When cornered, a rattle snake can become so angry it's been known to bite itself, which is exactly how I feel in traffic and relationships.

Dov Davidoff

Snakes, Traffic, Feels

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An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

Soseki Natsume

Artist, Common Sense, World

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I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Writing, Order, Three

"Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

David Nicholls

Writing, Thinking, Hands

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But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.

William H. Gass

Running, Eye, Mirrors

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When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.

Sun Tzu

Art, War, Moving

Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.15, Lulu.com

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Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Wall, Real, Cutting

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