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• But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

  Yaron Brook

  Government, Political, Wish

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• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  Ian Rankin

  Character, Crime Novels, Trying

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

  Angela Cartwright

  Mom, Art, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, Hands, Bigs

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• The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

  Dick Cavett

  Sex, Police, Resorts

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• What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

  Max Muller

  People, Desire, Done

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.158, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

  William Wordsworth

  Sick, Lovers, Fit

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.147, Humanities-Ebooks

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• The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and
  energetic people safe, prosperous and free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Safe, Passionate

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• At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man -- beautiful, really -- with black unruly hair, large sensitive eyes fringed by long dark lashes, a full sensuous mouth -- and an irresistible personality. His name was Tony Curtis.

  Janet Leigh

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

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• Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Miracle, Luck

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• I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Men, Good Man

  Toni Morrison (2008). “Love”, p.10, Random House

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• The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.

  Jeremy Renner

  Jobs, Thug, College

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• Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

  Joanne Harris

  Stupid, Sheep, May

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.17, Penguin

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• Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

  Marisa Silver

  Children, People, Trying

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• He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, College, Hair

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

  Tim Gunn

  Boredom, Achievement, Needs

  Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney (2011). “Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style”, p.122, Abrams

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• Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Direct Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Children, School, Emotional

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Stories, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.49, Macmillan

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• The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

  David Finkelstein

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.

  Polybius

  Order, Punishment, People

  "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark". Book by Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection", quoting "The Histories", work by Polybius, 1995.

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