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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
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Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head
Quentin Crisp
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I`m really emotional. I don`t fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I`ll just start crying instead. I`ve learnt not to do that.
Gwen Stefani
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When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I`d barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.
Chris Kirkpatrick
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I go, `God, you know, it all sounds so familiar. I know what you`re saying, I really do. I just cannot respond to you back in Spanish. I can barely speak English properly.` I didn`t grow up in a Cuban or Latin community. I grew up in Southern California o...
Cameron Diaz
Keywords: all :: back :: barely :: beach :: california :: can :: cannot :: community :: cuban :: didn :: do :: english :: familiar :: go :: god :: grew :: grow :: in :: it :: just :: know :: latin :: on :: or :: properly :: re :: really :: respond :: saying :: so :: sounds :: southern :: spanish :: speak :: the :: to :: up :: what :: youSource: imdb.com
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I`m convinced wearing those corsets for 14 hours at a time deformed me for life. I was 16 years old and still growing at the time of the shooting. I could barely breathe, and with Christine`s intense emotions I hyperventilated and almost passed out. I thi...
Emmy Rossum
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The things that move me and excite me aren`t necessarily going to be box-office hits all the time. My favorite film I`ve ever done was Love`s Labour`s Lost (2000) and I think - in box-office terms - barely one person saw it. But I still think it`s the gre...
Alicia Silverstone
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Charlie was a 45-year-old rocker who had been spat out the other side - they were looking at someone like John Hannah. My pitch was, `Wouldn`t it be a more interesting character if he was someone who has barely scratched the surface of what he could be?` ...
Dominic Monaghan
Keywords: 45 :: at :: barely :: be :: been :: character :: charlie :: could :: had :: hannah :: has :: he :: if :: interesting :: it :: john :: like :: looking :: more :: my :: of :: old :: other :: out :: pitch :: rocker :: scratched :: side :: someone :: spat :: surface :: the :: they :: was :: were :: what :: who :: wouldn :: yearSource: imdb.com
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My voice has gotten deeper and it`s all down to when I was living in Australia. I could speak and only barely sing. Deep down I knew that something was chronically wrong with my voice. It was polyps. The first thing the doctor said to me, "You smoke a lot...
Elton John
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Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
Estella Warren
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I have to say this singing was harder than any I`ve done before. The melodies are so fast that you can barely get a breath in. But once I got past the `Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into` phase, it was so much fun to sing again.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Keywords: again :: any :: are :: barely :: before :: breath :: but :: can :: done :: fast :: fun :: get :: god :: got :: gotten :: harder :: have :: in :: into :: it :: melodies :: much :: my :: myself :: oh :: once :: past :: phase :: say :: sing :: singing :: so :: than :: that :: the :: this :: to :: ve :: was :: what :: youSource: imdb.com
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Not having incredible success for a long time probably helped. Of course some 20-year-old beautiful girl, who goes from barely acting to being on the cover [of magazines] ... that`s going to be disorienting and confusing, and people can`t really be surpri...
Helen Hunt
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[Talking about the appeal of Indiana Jones]: "Indiana Jones is always getting in way over his head and just barely getting out by the skin of his teeth."
Harrison Ford
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I`m totally shattered. Everything has been so crazy. I`ve been trying to get my act together, but I am so exhausted I can barely string a sentence together. Making this album has really taken its toll. (on recording the Fever album).
Kylie Minogue
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You still have buildings that are well over halfway flooded with water, ... What you use as landmarks is, you use the streets signs, which you can barely see the tops of.
Azyumardi Azra
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You can`t very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
Martha Reeves
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You can`t make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
Sam Shepard
Source: brainyquote.com
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Yet the barely-moving polls and the lack of major gaffes or policy collapses has made it duller than I, for one, hoped it would be.
Andrew Marr
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When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.
John Moody
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When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Howard Nemerov
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When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.
Allen Boyd
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What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with.
Joe Amato
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We`re still alive. We`ve got our heads just barely below water, but we`ve got time to pick it back up and get a breath of fresh air.
Ryan Newman
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We`re still alive now. We`ve got our heads just barely below water. We`ve got a chance to come up for a breath of fresh air.
Ryan Newman
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We`re still alive now. We`ve got our heads just barely below water, but we`ve got time to pick it back up and get a breath of fresh air.
Ryan Newman
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We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Andre Van Heerden
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We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
Sidney Blumenthal
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Unlike a strike situation, where hardship develops over time, many of our members barely escaped Katrina`s destruction with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Joe Hansen
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Tony Blair barely escaped this year, and now George W. Bush, if elections were to be held today, would be in a serious challenge as well.
Gwen Ifill
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Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.
Aiko Uemura
