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• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  Christopher Walken

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Christopher Walken Offered Natalie Wood Death Theory in Past Interview" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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• But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

  Scott Walker

  Government, Reform, Shrinking

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• My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

  Flip Wilson

  Messages, Fine, Ifs

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• One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Jelly, Too Much

  Letter to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 4 July 1938

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• In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Chess, Evaluation, Sometimes

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• If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

  George Eliot

  Balls, Ems, Want

  "The Mill on the Floss". Book by George Eliot, 1860.

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• For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.

  Marianne Curley

  Revenge, Fall, Night

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• Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. “What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” “Nothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.

  Amanda Hocking

  Doing You, Doe, Married

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.549, Pan Macmillan

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• In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard.

  Henry Holmes Smith

  Photography, Past, World

  Henry Holmes Smith, James Enyeart (1986). “Henry Holmes Smith: collected writings 1935-1985”, Center for Creative Photography

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• Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.

  Daido Moriyama

  Water, Mind, Want

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• Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

  David Denby

  Wine, Class, White

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• I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Growing Up, School, Gay

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• Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.

  Dana Gould

  School, Past, People

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• I know when the anthrax thing hit - white people, y'all was very nervous. Y'all would come up to me at work and warn me, like 'Oh my God, Aries, be careful. Don't open your mail.' Let me tell you something - black folks was never worried about anthrax because, half the time, we don't open our mail no way. We might think that's a bill. We might hold it to the light and go, 'That's a red slip.' If you want to get us with anthrax, put that in a Jay-Z CD. That's how you get us.

  Aries Spears

  Thinking, Cds, White

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• I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

  Andy Cohen

  Real, Thinking, Self

  "Andy Cohen shares his days and nights in new book". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.washingtontimes.com. November 12, 2014.

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• Guinevere is just head over heels and doesn't know how to handle these new emotions that she's feeling, as a young woman. Unfortunately, she can't reign it all in, all the time. And, even though she tries to do the right thing and be the good girlfriend and have her morals, she slips up a little bit.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Girlfriend, Feelings, Good Girl

  Source: collider.com

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• We never had a pool, right. So one summer, I remember. My dad, to make me happy. You know I was bummed out cause we didn't have the pool. So one summer he bought us this thing. It was yellow, you laid it on the lawn, sprayed it with the water, run across. Slip n' Slide. Yeah. Would have been fun if dad checked for rocks before he laid it down! Slip n' Bleed from the anus they should have called this ride.

  Dane Cook

  Summer, Running, Fun

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• Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.

  Richard Jeni

  Sports, Team, Kids

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• My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

  Eddie Izzard

  Brain, Helping, Said

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

  Jerry Lewis

  Ownership, Share, Born

  Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan (2011). “Dean And Me: A Love Story”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

  Conor Oberst

  Mind, Needs, Kind

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• What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Men, Thinking

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, World, Moments

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2125, Penguin

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• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Phrases, Wander, Single Word

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.13, Collector's Library

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• As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hands, Heaven, Body

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1338, Dell

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