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• I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

  Ron Perlman

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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

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• Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

  Steven Pinker

  Perspective, Suffering, Inability

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• How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

  Brad Pitt

  Fighting, Together Again, Stories

  "Brad Pitt Talks Jennifer Aniston and 'Trying to Pretend the Marriage Was Something That It Wasn't'" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Pages, Starting

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• I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

  Elvis Presley

  Training, Lines, Way

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• I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fun, Fighting, Lunch

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• I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Xbox, Design, Half

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• As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Kids, Angel, Thinking

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• I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

  Alan Rickman

  Girlfriend, Morning, Block

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• A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Men, Honor

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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• In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

  Erwin Rommel

  Military, Fighting, Men

  "'Infanterie Greift An' ('Infantry Attacks')". Book by Erwin Rommel, p. 62, 1937.

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• There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Opportunity

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

  Eli Roth

  Years, House, Haunted Houses

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• If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.

  Ronda Rousey

  Dream, Home, Fighting

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• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Troubled Relationship, Littles, Complicated Relationship

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• When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

  Carlos Santana

  New York, Heart, Land

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• Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

  David Schwimmer

  Karma, Feel Good, Benefits

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Axes, Ice, Snow

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• He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, World

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.262, Perfection Learning

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• I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

  Ringo Starr

  Guitar, Practice, Play

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

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• It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

  Meryl Streep

  Reality, Earth, Wells

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• I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Thinking, Years

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