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• There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.

  George Clooney

  Fall, Hair, Years

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• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  Gail Collins

  President, Reason Why, Judgment

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• I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

  Katie Couric

  Thinking, Winning, People

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• The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

  Daniel Craig

  Worst Situation, Looks, Thrillers

  "Daniel Craig: the Man With the 007 Tattoo". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Loss, Winning, League

  "Laura Robson has attitude to excel at Wimbledon says Lindsay Davenport" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.

  Todd English

  Thinking, People, Kitchen

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• God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Blow, Thinking

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

  Tina Fey

  June, Rocks, Years

  "Steve Carell and Tina Fey Interview Date Night – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 8, 2010.

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• To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Needs, Taste

  "Against Meat" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2009.

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• Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

  Jodie Foster

  Eye, Boys, Long

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• The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Irritated, Following

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• But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Successful, Emotional

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• As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

  Daniel Goleman

  College, Meditation Practice, Class

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• When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Teenager, People

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• I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Player, Thinking, Nhl

  Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.

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• We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, States, Day To Day

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Games, Assistants, Tetris

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• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Simple, Men, Study

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• So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

  T. D. Jakes

  Purpose, Done, Way

  "Interview: T.D. Jakes on 35 Years of Ministry". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 14, 2012.

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• It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Heartbreaking, Might

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• Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Being Yourself, Media, Way

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• When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Financial Education, Average

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2017

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• I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Teacher

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Historical, Fiction

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• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Artist, Order, Imagination

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