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• People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

  Victoria Pratt

  Stars, People, Teeth

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• I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.

  Jared Leto

  Mother, Kids, Rocks

  AskMen Interview, uk.askmen.com. July 20, 2007.

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• What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

  Charlie Sheen

  Gnarly, People, Guy

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• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  Ed Westwick

  Years, Long, Flesh

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2009.

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• To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Wisdom, Smart

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• [On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

  Humphrey Bogart

  House, Patriotism, Anthem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

  Dorothy Parker

  Names, Fame, Rosters

  Here Lies (1939) "The Little Hours"

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• Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Literature, Pithy

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations". Book by Tryon Edwards, 1908.

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• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  Saint Augustine

  Blow, Done, May

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• I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  Frances Farmer

  Lying, Dark, Night

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• Hit the nail on the head.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Latin

  John Heywood (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs”, Berkeley : University of California Press

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• We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

  Tom Peters

  Two, People, Supportive

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

  Bernard Baruch

  Political, Hammers, Looks

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• There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

  Tom Clancy

  Technology, People, Tools

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  Edith Sitwell

  Rain, Fall, Loss

  "Still Falls the Rain" l. 1 (1942)

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• I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

  Zoe Saldana

  Girl, Beer, Guy

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  Oliver Reed

  Thinking, Bangs, Needs

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• I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

  Iggy Pop

  Sound, Offensive, Blackboard

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• Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

  Charles Babbage

  Shoes, Boots, Kind

  Charles Babbage (1827). “An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures”, p.6

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• Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Art, Winning, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

  Kató Lomb

  Weight, Enough, Break

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• I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

  David Ignatow

  Stars, Eye, Clouds

  David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.57, Wesleyan University Press

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• By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Writing, Support

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Hands, Knees, Universe

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• On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

  C. S. Lewis

  Necks, Satan, Footprint

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