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Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.
Clark Gable

Woman, Everything, Different

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
Katherine Dunn

Work, Book, Happens

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
Rian Johnson

Emotional, Idea, Favorite

I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
Rian Johnson

Time, Best, Future

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.
Rian Johnson

School, Heart, Human

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Car, Problem, American

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.
Martha Reeves

God, Grateful, Mighty

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
James F. Byrnes

Peace, Hope, Again

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
Johann Arndt

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
Lactantius

Understand, Same, Energy

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Lucy Liu

Emotional, Violence, Action

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
Jesse Helms

Yourself, Become, Everyone

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Benny Green

Jazz, Musician, Oranges

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
Pat Buckley

Act, Sexual, Sinful

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
Patrick Rothfuss

Work, Time, Writing

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello

Work, Nature, Human

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
Gale Norton

Meaning, Needs, Variety

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.
Rosario Dawson

Good, Evil, Dangerous

And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.
Ed Rendell

Beautiful, Open, Level

That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.
PSY

Funny, Someone, Why

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
Sherwood Boehlert

Give, Another, Vote

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.
Sherwood Boehlert

Technology, Economy, Bring

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin

Hero, Used, Force

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.
Bob Monkhouse

Wife, Bad, Saying

I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
Tara Reid

Guy, Dancing, Hips

God uses whoever he wants.
Dyan Cannon

God, Wants, Whoever

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
Friedrich Engels

Freedom, Down, Speak

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
Romano Prodi

Drunk, Support, Statistics

My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
Bar Refaeli

Everything, She, Artist

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
Sarah Orne Jewett

Happiness, Nothing, Find

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