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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
Buffalo Bill

Men, Place, Three

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
James Lovelock

Science, Put, Against

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.
Sachin Tendulkar

Mind, Happen, Two

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
Dean Kamen

Technology, Ideas, Cheaper

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
David Mamet

Peace, Power, Government

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
Andrew Cuomo

Life, Death, Understand

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
Roald Dahl

Life, School, Through

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.
Beth Ditto

Love, Nothing, Together

When I'm into a woman, I literally can't stop staring. I'm like a little kid. I become completely entranced.
Bradley Cooper

Woman, Become, Stop

I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.
James Dyson

Afraid, Door, Plan

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
Arlen Specter

Success, Money, Great

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Aimee Mann

Music, Down, Guy

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
Erykah Badu

Experience, Times, Artists

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.
Sherri Shepherd

Husband, Sometimes, Away

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
Theophile Gautier

Means, Word, Exist

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
J. J. Abrams

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
Portia de Rossi

Wanted, Disappear, Anorexic

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
Eric Bana

Great, Someone, Career

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
Josie Maran

Life, Business, Alone

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
Bear Grylls

Feeling, Give, Before

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
Nicolas Cage

Change, Power, Alone

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.
Alicia Keys

Put, Sometimes, Tell

I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.
Julie Burchill

God, Christian, Understand

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
Lionel Blue

Among, Oxford, Fell

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.
Trisha Goddard

Wedding, After, Keep

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.
Adam Carolla

Movies, Real, Down

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Michael Sheen

Life, Death, Human

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
Dane Cook

Start, Comedy, Bring

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
Christopher Meloni

Work, Health, Morning

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
Rainn Wilson

Mind, Around, Lose

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