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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb. Eazy-E
Truth People Out Lies Thumb Come Like Sore Hear Where Stands Many
I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me. Elisabeth Rohm
Me Think Out Adjustment Hurdle Fact Stuck Thumb Like Looked Sore Audience Came Just Different
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good. Gabriel Byrne
Good Character You People Bad People Somebody Once Rule Bad Find Thumb Said Portray Interpreting
A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment. Glenn Hughes
Great Me Bass Bass Player Other Bass Players Compliment Fingers Only Pick He Thumb Like Sounds Lot Which Who Player Players Playing Plays
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. Gunter Grass
Me Relationship Mother State Took Back Saw See Thumb Advent Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Up Jacob Childhood Grew Which Theater Far Production Even Tom
Men often still expect women to be under their thumb. Guy Pearce
Women Men Thumb Still Expect Often
I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture. Hubert de Givenchy
Love Architecture Thumb Got Green Really Gardens
I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That's a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed. Jake Tapper
Work Time Son Better Wife Daughter Live Busy Rule Given My Time Thumb Attention Terms Make Bed Am Go Up Very Get Personal Happier Moment Lives Need
The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools. James E. Rogers
Time President Rule Spent Must Thumb New Schools Funds Raising
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. Jeffrey Donovan
Me People Would About Thumb Like Cultivate Surprise Lot Green Get Bushes Really Gardener
I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there. Jeremy Piven
Fight Father Way Sew Backward Ripped Directed Scene Wrist Had Thumb Over Surgery Doing Up Fight Scene Flew Chair Choreography Play
I'd write songs like 'One Big Holiday,' and we'd play it and say, 'It's too heavy for 'At Dawn.' Let's save it for the next one.' We had more time for that, but when you mix a song, the general rule of thumb for us is a song a day or usually a day and a half. Jim James
Time Day You Song Half Big Too Rule Say General More General Rule Write Dawn Had Songs Thumb Like Mix Heavy Holiday Us Next Play Save
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power. John Podhoretz
You People Better Power Rule Magazine Classic Thumb Ideological Opposition Intellectual Reflected Than Your Views
If we're going to acquire, what are we going to do differently? We came up with six rules of thumb. Whenever I've violated two of them, I usually get into trouble. John T. Chambers
Trouble Rules Thumb Came Up Get Going Six Whenever Them Acquire Differently Violated Two
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either. Jon Meacham
Work War Good You World Rule Presidents Franklin Pretty Pretty Good Thumb Terms Democratic Won Either Roosevelt Who Four Here World War
I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb. Jon Tester
Mom Me Remember Three Our Fingers Hypnotized Thumb Sticking Hand Off Left Shop Just Middle Grind Meat Helping Butcher
It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth. Jonathan Safran Foer
Good Me You Mouth Rule See Seems Something Allowed Put Thumb Where Your
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler. Laura Mennell
Good You Try Down Bend Bending Side Back Extremely Wrestler Attempt Thumb Thumbs Because Odd Opposite Hand Very Quite Them Far Your Flexible Even Basically
Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted. Mark Waid
Good Me Ways Rules Taken Taken For Granted Thumb Forces Sort Doing Articulate Granted Teaching Things
There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that. Mary Beard
Culture Women Rule More Thumb Anyone Preoccupied Basic
I know I'm the greatest, and like I said, I ain't here to be average. I always wanted to stick out as a sore thumb, so that's what I'm doing. It's just confidence. Max Holloway
Confidence Out Thumb Like Know Sore Stick Greatest Said Always Doing Just Wanted Average Here
At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris. Michael Dirda
Money Down Saved Sleeping Sidewalk Once Backpack Stations Paris Through Cheap Thumb Readily Pillow Yellow Mexico Train Lemon Warmth Europe Rides Even Traveled Early Early 20s Night
Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in the NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11. Michael Hayden
Money Own Down Nice Every Everybody Rule About Give Had Thumb Prior Up Ended As Much Money After Mean Agency Much Popular Twice Right
Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11. Michael Hayden
Money Own Down Nice Every Everybody Rule About Give Had Thumb Prior Up Ended As Much Money After Mean Agency Much Popular Twice Right
My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself. Michael Sheen
Myself Rule See Thumb Like Go Want Things
You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb. Nancy Banks Smith
You Carry Someone Thumb Forever Being
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