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• I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Hair, White, Political

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• It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, World, Way

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• I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

  Craig Ferguson

  Train Wrecks, Who I Am, Trying

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• I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  People, Feelings, Different

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• Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

  James Dickey

  Art, Lying, Asks

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• I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man!

  Charlie Flynn

  Dad, Men, Boxing

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• I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

  Megan Fox

  Watches, Watch Me, My Own

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• It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set

  Jon Hamm

  Leader, Attention, Actors

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• I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.

  Noel Gallagher

  Two, Feet, People

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• With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Inspirational, Dance, Energy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 20, 2011.

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• The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.

  Dannii Minogue

  Funny, Sex, Dumb

  Maxim Magazine (UK edition), December 2001.

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• I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

  Loring M. Black, Jr.

  Running, Fear, Gambling

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• One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Names, Confusion, Fever

  Samuel Hahnemann (1982). “Organon of medicine”, J P Tarcher

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• Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Curiosity, Rebellious, Ends

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Offering, Order

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• The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.

  Rick Bragg

  Dream, Hard Work, People

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.25, Vintage

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• I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.

  Fleur Adcock

  Writing, Solitude, Feelings

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Wish, Actors, Knows

  "The ride of his life" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

  Alexander Payne

  Calm, Film, Said

  "'The Descendants' won't bring Alexander Payne down". Interview with Susan Wloszczyna, www.usatoday.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Eye, Rights, Giving

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I remember, when I have preached at different times in the country, and sometimes here, that my whole soul has agonized over men, every nerve of my body has been strained and I could have wept my very being out of my eyes and carried my whole frame away in a flood of tears, if I could but win souls

  Charles Spurgeon

  Country, Eye, Winning

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 44: Sermons 2549-2602”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

  Morton Feldman

  Loss, Simple, Drawing

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god?  And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Eye, Jewels

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• It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

  Adrienne Rich

  Suffering, Resentment, Bitter

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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