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• The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.

  Stephen King

  Religious, Glasses, Purpose

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• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  Nate Berkus

  Mean, Worry, Fleas

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• I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

  Lake Bell

  Vowels, Know How, Terminology

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, ‘I don’t care, it is not in my back yard.’ But now it’s in everyone’s back yard.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

  Abi Morgan

  Writing, Mean, May

  Source: collider.com

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• Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.

  Andrew Weil

  Spiritual, People, Giving

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• What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

  John Irving

  Thinking, Today, Knows

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

  Joaquin Rodrigo

  Believe, Guitar, Age

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• World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

  John Ralston Saul

  Insecure, Class, Cities

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

  Laurie R. King

  Wells

  Laurie R. King (2013). “Touchstone”, p.338, Allison & Busby

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• Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

  George Carlin

  Life, Different, Use

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.192, Hachette UK

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• The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

  George Carlin

  Practice, Might, Common

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technique, Doctrine, Needs

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• There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Order, Knives, Facts

  "I'm Telling You for the Last Time". Stand-up comedy, 1998.

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• You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Police, Might

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• The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one and only. He was one of the greatest Blues players that I ever heard and played with. Nobody can play like Sweets man, nobody! Most of us, musicians, frequently quote Sweets' phrases in our solos. Like Lester Young, Sweets had a big influence on us musicians, especially when we play some Blues.

  Ray Brown

  Sweet, Unique, Player

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• The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle?

  Craig Ferguson

  Brother, Uncles, Book

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• Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Sweet, Play, Style

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• I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

  Bret Michaels

  Block, Kids, Use

  "Bret Michaels Rocks From "Love" To "Life As I Know It"". Interview with Craig Marks, www.billboard.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

  Joe Eszterhas

  Smoking, Acting, Cigarette

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.

  Greg Behrendt

  Motor Vehicles, Cake, Might

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• A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Technique, Transition, Routine

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• You ever say a phrase you say all the time at the wrong time, feel like a complete idiot? Something like, 'You, too. You, too.' I was getting out of the cab at the airport, and the driver goes, 'Hey, have a nice flight.' 'You, too. You, too. You have a nice flight, too - in case you ever fly some day.

  Brian Regan

  Nice, Airports, Hey

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• Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

  Dana Gould

  Two, Bird, Stones

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 12, 2013

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• One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

  Dana Gould

  Jumping, Long, Kicking

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