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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up a poor kid to a single mom, so as an African-American actor I have a responsibility to hold the mirror up and reflect our stories. I'm living the dream and also escaped the inevitable.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is now running rampant across popular culture, entertainment, and politics.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel lucky. I grew up in an open-minded, multi-cultural community in West Vancouver in Canada. There were people who had escaped some kind of oppression. Some of them were first-generation immigrants, others were one or two generations back.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I often escaped through the back fence to walk the four miles to my father's office in Windsor. I only lasted a few terms, but it didn't curb my ambition.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was treated as a subject that was as important as everything else, and I believe it is.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zoos have always fascinated me. What child hasn't wondered what would happen if all the animals escaped from the zoo? Or what would happen if they got caught in an enclosure?
- Generals
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq. They actually headquartered the Iraq Ba'ath Party and all of their escaped generals in Damascus.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment I escaped to China, I didn't have any money; I only had one address in my hand of some long-distance Chinese relatives. I didn't know China was that big. I thought I can find their home very easily, and I would come back one week later. But then I found out the address was a 10-hour drive away.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
- Fragment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I escaped from China and came to Hong Kong, the contrast was that China was like hell and Hong Kong like heaven. Though I was very poor, I smelled the air of freedom and was full of hope for the future. That's the way I thought heaven is.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
- Confines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a living testament to the value of immigration. I escaped a civil war, and I came to Canada as a refugee, and they gave my family protection. I did my best to pay that country back, and I think I did that.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020