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India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
Aravind Adiga

Great, Broken, Between

I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.
Betsey Johnson

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.
Dick York

God, Around, Her

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.
John T. Flynn

Great, Power, Moving

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.
Joseph Wambaugh

Down, Stand, Hollywood

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
Brian Bosworth

Morning, Football, Getting

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
Keith Haring

Power, Fight, Important

I was in Germany when the wall came down.
Joe Cocker

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Lost, Between, Realize

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.
Tom Daschle

Challenge, Difficult, Against

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.
Michael Shanks

Writing, Last, Year

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.
Ellen Tauscher

Family, Business, Strong

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.
Rutger Hauer

Honesty, Through, Learn

And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.
Will Arnett

Future, Moment, Show

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
Garth Ennis

Hope, Trying, Off

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
Gustav Stickley

Peace, Quiet, Woods

I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
Dana Spiotta

Great, Power, Everything

All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
Dana Spiotta

Live, Lead, Street

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
Dana Spiotta

Power, Greed, Give

I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
Tab Hunter

Work, Again, Off

Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
Yitzhak Shamir

Two, Again, Forever

When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
Billy Mays

Best, Against, Billy

I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
Foxy Brown

Career, Stop, Fans

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
Randy Bachman

Earth, Example, Hole

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.
Gloria Gaynor

Faith, Person, Try

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie

Cooking, Mountain, Housework

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.
Jean Pigozzi

Change, Around, Willing

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.
Juliet Stevenson

Remember, High, Three

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
Juliet Stevenson

Work, Artist, Room

Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.
Donald Glover

End, Writing, Acting

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