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• Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.

  Robert Genn

  Music, Joy, Phrases

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• We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves.

  Seymour Krim

  Time, Stars, Sky

  Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers

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• Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

  Thomas Friedman

  Two, World, Quests

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• So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.

  Ryan Tedder

  Ideas, Trials, Earth

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• A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest.

  Joel Salatin

  Philosophy, Heart, Passion

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• I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Children, Embrace, Crushed

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• Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Energy

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• Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You to take me,” she replied at once. “Not gonna happen!” I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That’s when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Hands, Three

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• There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

  E. Lockhart

  Years, Hot, Shapes

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.143, Hot Key Books

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• We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

  David Byrne

  Breakup, Art, Creative

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.35, Canongate Books

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• She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

  Henry James

  Mistake, Opportunity, Hands

  "The Real Thing and Other Tales".

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• The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.

  Criss Jami

  Father, Son, Knowing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Generosity, Students

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• Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Song, Sex, Roles

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• Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

  Dick Cavett

  Stars, People, Brain

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.154, Henry Holt and Company

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• You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

  Daniel Hannan

  Order, Forever, Economy

  "Hannan Rips PM Brown; Obama on Same Path?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2009.

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• My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.

  Toots Thielemans

  Father, Son, Sunday

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• Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hands, Long, Water

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• Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

  Steven Spielberg

  Hollywood, Type, Budgets

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• Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Fun, Stupidity, American Voters

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• Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene pensions. They self-righteously lecture us about public service, the children, a 'living wage' all in the service of squeezing more money from the taxpayer to fund their breathtakingly selfish job arrangements.

  Ann Coulter

  Jobs, Children, Crazy

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• The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking a year over this and doing it on a donkey. Eventually found the road to the church of the Madonna of San Biagio, a foursquare temple sitting all alone in the plain. Sangallo's fantasy of the Doric order in honey-colored sandstone, with shell-niches, rosettes, oculi under heavy entablatures. Any one ignorant of geometry scarcely dare enter this shrine to number, measure, and weight. So clean and crisp I could eat it for breakfast.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Struggle, Italian, Order

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• An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

  Ben Ames Williams

  Vacation, Paper, Sponges

  Ben Ames Williams (1944). “Leave Her to Heaven”

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• People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

  David Mitchell

  People, Becoming, Obscenity

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.470, Random House

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• A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

  Robert Menzies

  May, Lasts, Tough

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