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• Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

  David Brooks

  White, House, Has Beens

  "Shields and Brooks on Hagel’s Rough Hearing, Movement on Immigration". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. February 1, 2013.

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• Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

  Robert Graves

  Taken, Mixtures, Emergencies

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• Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.

  Shirley Manson

  Fighting, Battle, Needs

  www.facebook.com. February 10, 2015.

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• The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.

  Bill McKibben

  Home, House, Green

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• My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

  Jessica Raine

  Acting, Goes On, Firsts

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

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• However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

  Rollo May

  Fighting, Covered Up, May

  "Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

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• Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order.

  Gunter Brus

  Order, White, Nuisance

  "Gunter Brus: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber (p. 14), 2005.

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• The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Independent, Technology, Promise

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try her again. I had never been so reeling with authorial joy as I had been that day, holding Marion's letter and seeing that ravaged manuscript - finally, it meant that someone cared!

  Vera Nazarian

  Joy, Trying, Ink

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

  Chuck D

  Real, Heart, Concrete

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

  Stephen Colbert

  Views, Shells, Want

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• Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

  Garth Brooks

  Song, Listening, Getting Older

  "Garth Brooks interview: The country icon on Nashville, GhostTunes and his Portland shows". Interview with David Greenwald, www.oregonlive.com. March 6, 2015.

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• True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face.

  Jane Porter

  Eye, Men, Confusion

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.18

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• I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Airplane, Two, Earning

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• For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Rap, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

  Tove Ditlevsen

  Poetry, Childhood, Skins

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• One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Mistake, Errors, Rose

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• The right way to deal with healthcare reform is not to have a one-size-fits-all plan that's imposed on all the states, but recognizing the differences between different states' populations, states should be able to craft their own plans to get all their citizens insured, and to make sure that preexisting conditions are covered.

  Mitt Romney

  Healthcare Reform, Differences, Size

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• What we want is for people to know that you can get affordable health care and most young Americans, they're not covered and the truth is they can get coverage all for what it costs to pay your cell phone bill.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Cells, People

  "'Baskets' Takes Zach Galifianakis From French Clown School To The Rodeo Ring". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 10, 2016.

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• People don`t like getting dirty or living in an environment that`s been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

  Chris Matthews

  Dirty, People, Waste

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I loved both [Bob] Seger and the Eagles, knowing why they didn't play some of the songs I wanted to hear. But at the same time, they covered all the big bases, and the stuff that most people had heard. But they definitely had a bunch of album cuts that I wanted to hear that they didn't get around to.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Cutting, Eagles

  "Q&A: The uncut Toby Keith interview". Interview with Ben Wener, www.ocregister.com. August 30, 2007.

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• In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than in any other country of Europe. The strength of the armies of Philip and John of Valois was composed of a fiery and undisciplined aristocracy which imagined itself to be the most efficient military force in the world, but which was in reality little removed from an armed mob.

  Charles William Chadwick Oman

  Country, Art, Military

  Charles Oman, Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (1924). “A history of the art of war in the middle ages”

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• My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

  Debbie Macomber

  Children, Wall, Names

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• I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.

  Claude Monet

  Order, Ordinary, Enthusiasm

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

  Sam Donaldson

  War, Blood, Vietnam

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