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• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  Camille Claudel

  Fire, Squash, Way

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• I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

  Murray Walker

  Heart, Usual, States

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• Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Song, Writing, Might

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• The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

  Imogene Coca

  Butterfly, People, Comedian

  "1950's TV Star Imogene Coca Dies at 92" by Donna Tommelleo, abcnews.go.com.

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• The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

  Leland Stanford

  Country, Anvils, Facts

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• Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

  Mitch Daniels

  Hands, People, Political

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• I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

  John Ashbery

  Poetry, Hollow

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• Mechanic slaves
  With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
  Uplift us to the view.

  William Shakespeare

  Uplifting, Views, Slavery

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

  Brion Gysin

  Two, Nails, Should

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• There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nails, Acceptable, Jokes

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Thinking, Ghouls, Vampire

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• I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

  Ice T

  Ice, Shows, Millions

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• When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

  Robert De Niro

  Drama, Home, Hands

  "Robert De Niro: the ultimate viewing guide" by Angie Errigo, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Dark, Acting, Nails

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• If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  Bernard Baruch

  Political, Nails, Looks

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• I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Tools, Motto

  Stephen Jay Gould (1996). “Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin”, Harmony

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• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Skills, People

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• You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2015

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• Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

  Samuel Smiles

  Lying, Luck, Wish

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.176

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• If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

  Aristotle

  Moving, Atheism, Would Be

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• If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Arborophilia". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2005.

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• He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blow, Player, Keys

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  Adam Carolla

  Nuts, Car, Guy

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• If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

  Sholem Asch

  Nails, Tools, Problem

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• What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance

  Nora Roberts

  Laughing, Secret, Firsts

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