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• Awkward gestures, clumsy gestures, fist pumps. I just do whatever I feel like is right in the moment. If I need to be hyped, I'm hyped. If I need to talk to myself, I talk to myself. Whatever it takes to win, I'm going to do it.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Winning, Awkward, Needs

  Victoria Azarenka during U.S. Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

  Rajneesh

  Hands, Want, Possessed

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• Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Warrior, Peaceful, Culture

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• There are things that are about the entire genre, so it's weird when you look on Wikipedia and people say, "The scene where Angel grabs his fist is from Superman II," and you're thinking, "Ummm, no it's not." Or, "There's a shot from Matrix Revolutions." I'm thinking, "I've only seen Matrix Revolutions once, and will never watch it ever again."

  Edgar Wright

  Angel, Thinking, People

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.

  Michael Caine

  Gun, Knives, Alcohol

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Kissing, Differences

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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• In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions.

  Paul Goodman

  Grief, Airplane, Fighting

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.188, New York Review of Books

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• Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

  George Jean Nathan

  Fighting, Successful, Criticism

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

  Bobby Scott

  Fighting, Second Chance, Years

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• I feel an army in my fist.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Army, Feels

  "The Robbers". Play by Friedrich Schiller, 1781.

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• Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

  Eva Figes

  Husband, Father, Hands

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• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

  Doug Stanhope

  Mothers Day, Wall, Bucks

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• The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

  George Eliot

  Blow, Giving, Negativity

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.31

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• It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

  Dana Gould

  Country, Nice, House

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• When we believe we are losing control, we grab on tight. When our greatest fear comes upon us, we clench our fist and teeth, close our eyes and hold on. We must learn how to let go. When the time comes for growth and change, we must have the courage and faith to let go. Whatever leaves my life makes room for something better.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Believe, Eye

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 30, 2016

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• Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

  Max Lucado

  Compassion, Giving, Common

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists hurts themselves as much, if not more, than they benefit from the attention they derive from their actions. Con artists usually benefit from misleading others without sacrificing anything themselves. All my girls have sacrificed plenty.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Girl, Hurt, Sacrifice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it was so that she could see what was on the other side, but really, it was so that she wouldn't have to look at herself. That, and because she thought she might be able to steal a piece of glass when no one was looking, and use it to carve her heart out of her chest.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Heart, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Women are beginning to lose their identity. They have jumped with teeth clenched, fists braced and eyes aglow, into the competitive man's world. They're losing the vibrant quality of femininity, the aura of mystery.

  Tony Curtis

  Eye, Men, Quality

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• I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new world state and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell's 1984.

  Chris Hedges

  Iron, Credit, World

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

  Ethan Hawke

  Design, Acting, Elements

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Stories, Use

  "Chuck Palahnuik On "Choke"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let me in, damn you, let me in!' The point is to walk away from the world and concentrate on creating a new woman.

  Vivian Gornick

  Doors, Damn You, Creating

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• I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Thinking, Differences, Ass

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