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• Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

  Brian Greene

  Cake, Icing, Theory

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

  Alain de Botton

  Simple, Thinking, Expression

  "Alain de Botton: 'My father was physically quite violent... he would destroy the house'" by Robert Chalmers, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2012.

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• I went from having the healthy hair that you have as a kid, to completely destroying it and frying it, and then actually having really healthy thick hair that I was proud of again. I just put an emphasis on what shampoo and conditioner I use.

  Blake Lively

  Kids, Hair, Healthy

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a good frolic in the sack, the kind who'll tear hell out of a thick steak, and yet who can go to the ballet with me and discuss Hegelian dialectic and know what the hell he's talking about.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Talking, Giving

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• Donald Trump is a guy that's gets stuff done. If he says he's gonna do something, he does it. He doesn't worry about it. He's got thick skin. He's gonna do it. He's gonna bring jobs back.

  Frank Stallone

  Jobs, Worry, Guy

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.

  Emma Stone

  Creative, Skins, Thick Skin

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Samurai, Way

  Source: craphound.com

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• I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.

  Megyn Kelly

  Jobs, America, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

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• BB-8 [from Star Wars] his accent is so thick. You can't make out a damn word he says.

  Alan Tudyk

  Stars, War, Accents

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Ice, Water

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• If I want to make - I don't know - strawberry jam, I'm going to have to add something to strawberries to make it gelatinous and thick, right? I'm going to have to add pectin or something like that.But if I want to make cranberry sauce, all I have to do is pop some cranberries in a little saucepan and when it cools off, it'll be thick and gelatinous. So what's up with cranberries?

  Ari Shapiro

  Add, Jam, Want

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

  Eudora Welty

  Respect, Writing, Abiding

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

  Carl Jung

  Book, Thoughtful, Blood

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Eight, Seven Months, Seven Days

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

  J. K. Rowling

  Persons

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• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Carl Sandburg

  Taken, Class, Textbooks

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• I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

  Dan Savage

  Heart, Skins, Thick Skin

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• Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Funny, Humor

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

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• At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

  Carrie Underwood

  Years, People, Skins

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• On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

  Jules Verne

  Clouds, Sky, Mountain

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the Moon”, p.135, Jules Verne

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• Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Clever, Thinking, Would Be

  "Experts and experimental government" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cat, Flames, Broken

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• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Children, Hair

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• I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

  Alicia Keys

  Keys, Curves, Body

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