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• Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.

  Christy Clark

  Team, Climate, Pressure

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

  Paul Haggis

  Long, Boss, Towns

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• I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing.

  Ann Friedman

  Strong, Hurt, Editing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched.

  Philippa Perry

  Mean, Thinking, Car

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the past I've always been the type of person to try and fit a square peg in a round hole. I can be very tenacious like that. But since I've had my daughter, I've found that I like the way life unfolds when I give the universe some space to guide me. It took me until my forties to realize that.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Daughter, Past, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't think Peg Bundy was very much like Katey Sagal. Definitely the wardrobe Gemma from Sons of Anarchy wears might be a little more like Katey Sagal. I mean, any time you play anything, there's pieces of yourself that you're kind of elaborating on. I mean, you're using parts of yourself.

  Katey Sagal

  Mean, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something into a square peg and a round hole. It's just never going to work.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Squares, Trying

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as Rita [in Dexter]. All I had to do was speak. And there was such simplicity in that as an actor. With Debra, I was trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and it just didn't work, but in my mind, because I had to work so hard on it, I was, like, "Oh, this is acting!" But that's not acting.

  Julie Benz

  Squares, Simplicity, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's just a moment that doesn't feel 100-percent truthful, a kind of a square peg/round hole situation. Which is why the preproduction on a movie is so important, because you can't just push those through.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Squares, Important, Truthful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whatever girl you are, every girl needs a really killer peg skirt in her closet. I don't care who you are. If you're the bohemian and you're wearing your big boyfriend sweater you need a peg skirt to reclaim your body. If you were the movie star, you might wear that with the push up tank like we have in the spring collection. It's all about body, body body. If you're the power player you put a jacket over that and work it that way. That item is for every girl, and every boy appreciated her in it.

  Byron Lars

  Girl, Stars, Spring

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• Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

  Aldous Huxley

  Squares, Social, Holes

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I can see her clearly, standing on the rock beside Peg Gratton, unflinching before Eaton and the rest of the race committee. I can't remember when I've been that brave, and it shames me. The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her; She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of the island that i'm not. It's like when the mare goddess looked into my eye; I felt that there was a part of myself that I didn't know.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Islands, Mirrors

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• Look, Iraq and Iran would fight for years and years and years, it went on forever. They were almost identical strengths, and the line would never move, right? Then they would go home and rest for ten years and then they would start fighting and they'd rest, that was it. We knocked out one of those two pegs, and so now Iran is taking over.

  Donald Trump

  Moving, Home, Fighting

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

  William Henry Maule

  Cost, Damage, Effects

  Beaumont v. Greathead, 3 D. & L. 636, 1846.

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• If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

  Theodore Gordon

  Conceited, Lakes, Sea

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

  Steve Yegge

  Ideas, Squares, Design

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• I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

  Jamie Bamber

  Simple, House, Design

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• Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Views, World, Emotion

  Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

  Patch Adams

  Sleep, Departed, Debt

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.

  Anne Beatts

  Real, Night, Squares

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• I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use!
  One dies of war like any old disease.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Use, Disease

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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• Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Stars, Two, Civilization

  "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel. "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §10, 1974.

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• The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Jobs, Men, Personality

  KENNETH E. BOULDING (1953). “THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION”

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• My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

  Carl Sandburg

  Cutting, Wire, Firsts

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• You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Simple, Reality, Squares

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