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• Alan Menken took me to his studio and we went through his trunks of songs and put together an album of stuff that people and stuff that people don't know. I'm very proud with the way it came out. I had no idea what it would be like to do an album and that process was grueling and tedious but it was very rewarding. I would do it again if I had the chance.

  Adam Jacobs

  Song, Ideas, People

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, Woodpeckers, Dull

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• Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.

  Nick Offerman

  Doors, Hands, Practice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 13, 2013.

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• I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

  Carrot Top

  Good Friend, Together, Tonight

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• Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Tree, Pioneers, Boards

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.589, Delphi Classics

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• What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Adventure, Winter

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2919, Delphi Classics

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.

  Ronald Knox

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  "The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 541, October 31, 2009.

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• Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches.
  Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Advice, Principles

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• The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Differences, Tree

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.93, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Nature, Lying

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.551

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• Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Flower, Color, Sky

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• I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Self, Tree, Legs

  "Vanessa Hudgens Hated Her 'Tree Trunk Legs,' Talks Cheetos Weight Gain" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Talk about meeting your soul mate ... I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage - I had trunks.

  Demi Moore

  Soulmate, Believe, Soul Mate

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• Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

  Charlie Krueger

  Friendship, Emergencies, Jumpers

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• Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
  Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Evil, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin

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• Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like candy for me. I would go over to his house for a sleep-over, and I would just be devouring everything I could get my hands on. I knew the sleep-over was going to be over, and I was going to go back to my house and it was going to be Kipling.

  James Spader

  Growing Up, Book, Sleep

  Source: collider.com

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• Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

  Ethel Waters

  Girl, Years, Long

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• I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Lying, Mean

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.278

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• Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

  Orlando Bloom

  Tree, Grounded, Focused

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• The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Tree, Forever

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne.

  Janet Evanovich

  Jesus, Saws, Mary

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• It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Attitude, Feel Good, Feelings

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• The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Flower, Disease, Fruit

  "Giuseppe Riconosciuto". Part I, 1733.

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• A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

  George Iles

  Science, Curves, Roots

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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