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• If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

  Bob Taft

  Jobs, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.

  Jerry Rubin

  Problem, Fame, Can Do

  "Growing (Up) at 37".

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• The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Memories, Sky, White

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• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

  Richard Meier

  Rome, Cities, Half

  "Building in Rome, no holiday / The eternal city wants to keep its architecture fixed in time, but the Ara Pacis marks a renaissance of modern era" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

  George Will

  Apples, Pie, Cheesy

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• Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Decay, Rough Times

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• Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

  Judith Viorst

  Heart, Absence, Grows

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.

  Cynthia Hand

  Might, Matter, March

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• Composition is frozen improvisation.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Improvisation, Composition

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• Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Photographer, Painting

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Sadness, Cutting, Fire

  Song: I Take My Chances, Album: Come On Come On, 1992

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• But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

  Melody Carlson

  Running, Fear, Winning

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Finding Alice”, p.14, WaterBrook

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• The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Past, Fixed

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• Billy: So good... Hey, this is weird. I ordered one frozen yogurt and they gave me two. You don't happen to like frozen yogurt, do you?
  Penny: I love it!
  Billy: You're kidding? What a crazy random happenstance!

  Joss Whedon

  Crazy, Two, Hey

  "Fictional characters: Dr. Horrible / Billy, Penny". TV Mini-Series "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog", 2008.

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• October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Rain, Winter

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• As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Heart, Mountain

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.64

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• . . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe of a paw. I sit there, flying on, and continue to stare, as though mesmerised, at the Cauldron on my left.

  Ernst Udet

  Blood, Flying, Brain

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• I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only one question has remained. Why would the gods take my eyes and my strength, yet condemn me to linger on so long, frozen and forgotten? What use could they have for an old done man like me? ... I remember, Sam. I still remember. Remember what? Dragons, Aemon whispered.

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Past, Night

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.382, Bantam

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• These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.

  David Nicholls

  Grief, Rivers, Safe

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• We need to get inside. I think my hair gel’s frozen.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Hair, Needs

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• Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feet, Snow, House

  "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938)

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• Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mistake, Government, Divine Justice

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.

  Dave Barry

  Vacation, Lakes, Offering

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.80, Ballantine Books

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• Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

  Maurice Strong

  Food, Home, Air

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• I recently read that Arnold Schwarzenegger collects Hummers. Now we know why Maria's face is frozen in that puckered position.

  Brad Wilkerson

  Sex, Faces, Schwarzenegger

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