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If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
Maya Lin

Death, Light, Around

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
Vidal Sassoon

Work, Time, Women

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
Alexander Haig

Islam, After, Realize

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Francis Picabia

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
Julie Burchill

Women, War, Smart

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
Julie Burchill

Find, After, Often

In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.
Julie Burchill

Husband, Nothing, Thought

I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.
Ricky Williams

School, Mind, Bit

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
Ashton Eaton

Down, Won, Test

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
Dan Rather

Truth, Sports, Baseball

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
Al Yankovic

Life, Trying, Find

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
Roberto Duran

Time, Laugh, Same

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.
James Brown

Good, Mind, Heart

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.
Liz Phair

Success, Good, Again

I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here.
Marc Jacobs

Job, Someone, Here

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.
Russell Crowe

Nothing, Talking, Sitting

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
Dirk Benedict

Success, Time, Health

Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
Wayne Rooney

Feeling, Remember, Around

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
Kiefer Sutherland

Amazing, Lost, Wrong

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
Kiefer Sutherland

Father, Films, Restricted

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
Julia Margaret Cameron

Growth, Process, Spiral

It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.
Andrew Cuomo

Time, State, Strike

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
Orlando Bloom

Great, Beautiful, Spring

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
Tim Berners-Lee

Control, Problems, Customers

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Jimmy Connors

Failure, Try, Challenge

For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.
John Hutton

Long, Career, Far

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
Oliver Kahn

Change, Important, Game

You can't take back an act you were able to think.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
Shirley Manson

Hold, Temper, Tides

When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn

Decision, Makes, Ceo

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