Hand Quotes
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I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position - when member states hand out favors, for instance, in terms of tax breaks. But even though that's a strong tool, it cannot solve everything.
Margrethe Vestager
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Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.
Patrick Ness
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To understand the economy then is to comprehend how it is driven by the animal spirits. Just as Adam Smith’s invisible hand is the keynote of classical economics, Keynes’ animal spirits are the keynote to a different view of the economy - a view that explains the underlying instabilities of capitalism.
George Akerlof
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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
Johnny Carson
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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.
Peter Morgan
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On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda
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You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
Cressida Cowell
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I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?
Daniel Woodrell
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The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
David Harvey
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I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed' - and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.
Clive Cussler
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The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
Rita Mae Brown
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin
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I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can replace looking someone in the eyes, touching their hand, you know?
Angela Ahrendts
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I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that my agent gave me the wrong scene or lines. They would take pity on me and hand me the right scene. I would act like I had never seen this before - and then do pretty well considering I had already rehearsed it.
James Marsden
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A day does not go by when I am not in a line at a store or at a McDonald's, and someone will touch my hand, and they will say, 'Thank you.'
Joe Garcia
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Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.
Alice McDermott
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I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.
Bobby Riggs
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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
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I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.
Matt Groening
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Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!
Eugene O'Neill
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I remember growing up and seeing Vanessa Hudgens' Bongo campaign in magazines. I think I probably put a few of her posters on my wall, to be honest. I wore Bongo growing up, as did my older sister - I would get her hand-me-downs as well as my own new pieces when I went shopping.
Lili Reinhart
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What is the sound of one hand?
Hakuin Ekaku