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• I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.

  Roger Ebert

  Hard Times, Skills, Directors

  Roger Ebert's review of "Wolf Creek", www.rogerebert.com. December 22, 2005.

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• You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

  Pete Wentz

  Running, Long, People

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• Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Gold, Ifs

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.8

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• I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Trying, Pressure

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm blessed with learning easily. I've always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I'll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Goes On, Scripts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Idols, Long, Remember

  "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Jennifer Lawrence interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother
  Teresa possessed a love for the poor; Billy Graham, a gift for preaching; and Joni Eareckson
  Tada, a disability. What did they have in common? A willingness to let God use whatever they
  had, even when it didn't seem very useful. If you will assess what you have to offer in terms
  of your time, your treasure, and your talents, you will have a better understanding of how you
  might uniquely serve.

  Richard Stearns

  Letting Go, Mother, Understanding

  Richard Stearns (2009). “The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World”, p.259, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.

  Mika

  People, Want, Know Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Fate, Rivers

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

  Bret Harte

  Arsenic, Habit, Break

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.82, VM eBooks

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• The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Tilt, Stones

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2008). “South Sea Tales”, p.257, OUP Oxford

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Hurt, Husband

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• Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

  Arthur Koestler

  Flower, Teaching, Garden

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• The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like to eat healthy, get your stick of butter baked.

  Jay Leno

  Iowa, Years, Healthy

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• Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Sick, Mind

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

  Molly Quinn

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Molly Quinn Talks SUPERMAN: UNBOUND, Voicing Supergirl, Narrating Audio Books, Favorite Genres and Her Wish to Be a Live-Action Batgirl". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 5, 2013.

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• No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

  Gordon Bethune

  Shots, Trenches

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• [It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Youth, Habit

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

  Aesop

  Flesh, Bones

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

  Terry Pratchett

  Senior, Long, Magic

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Sports, Baseball, Writing

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

  Bill Maher

  Fall, Thinking, Two

  "When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden". Book by Bill Maher, 2002.

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• Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up for those you relate to least, understand minimally, and do not think are that much like you.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Baby, Thinking, Moral Fiber

  Ingrid Newkirk's keynote address at the "Animal Rights" conference, 2002.

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• We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Elephants, Voice

  Veg Family, March 2003.

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• I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.

  Sarah Vowell

  Giving Up, Race, Mind

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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