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I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.
Ron Fournier

Politics, Best, Moving

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
Kenny Chesney

Music, Home, Girl

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.
Mike Singletary

Family, Strong, End

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.
John Malkovich

Beautiful, Nice, Powerful

Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
Dee Dee Myers

Made, Working, Problems

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan

Perfect, Golf, Natural

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
David Ogden Stiers

Old, Last, Half

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
Thomas Frank

Money, Pregnancy, Exchanged

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.
Shaun White

Through, Eyes, Sometimes

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
Peter Singer

Group, Social, Lives

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
Peter Singer

Human, Put, Able

I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.
Johnny Thunders

Actually, Eat, Cereal

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
Jack Kevorkian

Nice, Friends, Talk

I've never heard of any president being so close to his people.
Ho Chi Minh

President, Heard

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
Norah Jones

Home, Trying, Sometimes

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
Jeanette Winterson

Friends, Enough

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.
Adam Sandler

Saying, Person, Again

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
Mos Def

Everything, Together, Different

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
John Cusack

Good, Romantic, Him

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
Mahalia Jackson

Eyes, Song, Sing

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Francoise Sagan

Life, Great, Art

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.
Celine Dion

Keep, Wonder, Dreaming

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
Daniel Craig

Passion, Before, Name

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
Rand Paul

Life, Heart, Long

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
Marie Osmond

Eyes, Away, Head

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
Christopher Alexander

Great, Home, Today

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
Buffalo Bill

Character, Personal, Student

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
Buffalo Bill

Good, Beginning, Three

I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
Alexander Skarsgard

Someone, Down, Dark

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
Norodom Sihamoni

Happiness, Together, Suffering

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