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• There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated.

  Tori Amos

  Regret, Snakes, Creative

  "Tori Amos Interview by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm most excited about going swimming and riding water slides, shooting off fireworks, and playing basketball, and things like that. That's what I really love doing. Summer is a great time.

  Girl Talk

  Basketball, Summer, Swimming

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

  William H. Gass

  Otters, Style, Compliment

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second. If I could even do that in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball. I don't miss the crowds or the travel or even being in the big leagues. I just miss being able to take batting practice and being able to swing as hard as I can. That's all I miss.

  Prince Fielder

  Softball, Baseball, Running

  Source: dynamic.espn.go.com

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• We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.

  Henry Reed

  Spring, Flower, Bees

  "Lessons of the War: 1, Naming of Parts" l. 20 (1946)

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• Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.

  Edward Young

  Life, Moving, Gone

  Edward Young (1719). “The dramatic works of Edward Young”, p.72

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• The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

  Bill Lee

  Get Up, Ifs

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• Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

  Dallas Roberts

  Kids, Gun, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

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• Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Book, Insecure, Simple

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• Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

  Steven Erikson

  Dream, Stories, Ease

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• I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Children, Believe

  "Putin speaks out on Ukraine, Crimea and US relations with French media". Interview with Gilles Bouleau, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, www.rt.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Ever since I turned 22, I've grown weaker. I think I'm going to die after riding a slide once.

  Onew

  Thinking, Riding, Shinee

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• The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

  Abraham Verghese

  Snakes, Enough, Holes

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.385, Random House India

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• I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Girl, Running, Strong

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• When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sin, Repentance, Repetition

  Thomas Jefferson, Maria Hadfield Cosway, John P. Kaminski (1999). “Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I would like to think that no one would die anymore
  if we all believed in daisies
  but the worms know better, don't they?
  They slide into the ear of a corpse
  and listen to his great sigh.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Ears, Daisies

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• ... everyone young going down the long slide
  To happiness, endlessly.

  Philip Larkin

  Freedom, Long, Youth

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.

  Clinton Portis

  Running, Opportunity, Player

  "Clinton Portis: Crackdown on Hitting Could Make Game Less Exciting". Interview with Jason Reid, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 19, 2010.

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• To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Simple, Swings

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• The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

  Mason Cooley

  Way, Aphorism, Swerve

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• I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

  Prince Fielder

  Running, Baseball, Swings

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

  James Thurber

  Flower, One Thing

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• Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

  Muddy Waters

  Son, Thinking, Idols

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• I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mean, Giving, Firsts

  "Interview: Elaine Stritch from ’30 Rock’". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. May 7, 2010.

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