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• I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Running, Fun, Believe

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• Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

  Mary Douglas

  Strong, Equality, Thinking

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• I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

  William Allingham

  Sea, Gravity, Trifles

  William Allingham (1907). “William Allingham: a diary”

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• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  Ramsey Clark

  Criminals, Way, Prison

  Keynote address to American Correctional Association conference, Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 1967

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• To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

  John Keats

  Kindness, Ideas, Tools

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• The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

  Tina Howe

  Misunderstood, Tools, Crafts

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• If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

  Jim Henson

  Dog, Character, Giving

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• To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

  Ron Suskind

  Simple, People, Trying

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• The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Giving

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• Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

  John Zakour

  Fool Me Once, Mentor, Whiskey

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• When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."

  Ron Jaworski

  Leadership, Sports, Fun

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• Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

  Stan Musial

  Running, Home, Swings

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• Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Giving, Literature

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.215, Anchor

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• The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

  Tony Kushner

  Nashville, Stories, Influence

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• A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Strong Women, Attitude, Weak Man

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2013

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• There are no fears out there. There is nothing we cannot handle. It is just how we prepare ourselves mentaly and physically.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  No Fear

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• Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.

  Waverley Root

  Food, Spoons, Ships

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• I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Teacher, Children, Kids

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• I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Writing, Suspense Novels, Violence

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• I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think.

  Michael Schumacher

  Thinking, Way, Pressure

  "So Michael, where did it all go wrong?" by Norman Howell, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Football, Thinking, Balls

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• Too hot to handle, too cold to hold!

  Randy Savage

  Wwe, Hot, Cold

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• One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.

  Kingsley Martin

  Animal, Thinking, Numbers

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• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  Jackee Harry

  Struggle, Trying, Calm

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• There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

  Barack Obama

  America, Looks, Our Actions

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