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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Lord Acton

Ignorance, Simple, Two

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Great, Home, School

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
Tom Waits

Free, Rather, Bottle

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand

Bad, Wish, Said

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
Denzel Washington

Work, Done, Behind

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.
Janice Dickinson

Experience, Speak, Personal

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.
Alexander McQueen

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.
Margaret Cho

Revenge, Friends, After

Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.
Tom Vilsack

Home, School, Parents

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.
Julianne Hough

Time, Lie, Actually

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.
David Byrne

Life, Music, Pretty

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
Pope Francis I

Truth, Beautiful, Reality

When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
Clive Owen

Best, Idiot, Wind

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
Jon Bon Jovi

Another, Mirror, Kid

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.
Brett Favre

Year, Next, Ask

I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.
Susan Orlean

End, Game, After

When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.
Susan Orlean

Nothing, Holiday, Halloween

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.
Marc Andreessen

Point, Happened, Innovation

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.
Spike Lee

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
Jennifer Lopez

Happy, Parents, Wanted

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.
Rod Stewart

Getting, Singing, Hated

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
Clara Barton

Waiting, Strong, Help

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.
Helena Bonham Carter

Mean, Said, Big

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
Lawrence Welk

Life, Great, Nothing

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
Knute Rockne

Home, Friends, Idea

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.
Marc Jacobs

Black, Put, Line

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.
Kate Moss

Food, Forget, Remember

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
Jerry Lewis

Work, Hurt, Pain

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.
Eric Clapton

Past, Kids, Used

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
Adam Sandler

Live, Step, Scared

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