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• The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. (Eldridge Cleaver) [paper/lord/land]
• Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl. (Marlene Dietrich) [morning/paper]
• Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. (Havelock Ellis) [thinking/paper/money/poetry]
• Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [more/men/paper/right]
• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it. (Ernest Hemingway) [/paper/take/normal]
• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. (Ernest Hemingway) [paper]
• I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. (Samuel Johnson) [willpower/paper/sin/sorrow]
• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools. (Karl Kraus) [civilization & progress/paper/newspaper/life]
• I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. (Steve Martin) [think/paper]
• Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. (Herman Melville) [allegory/content/paper]
• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. (Henry Miller) [life/virus/paper/courage]
• Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. (Jim Rohn) [day/paper]
• Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way. (Nikola Tesla) [paper/mind/change/construction]
• I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. (Henry David Thoreau) [paper]
• France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper. (Billy Wilder) [money/paper]
• I will pay people off to get one. I'll bribe anybody - you can put this in the paper - tell them to call my office and tell me how much money they need. (Denis Leary) [willpower/people/paper/office]
• Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash? (Dennis Miller) [marriage/marriage/paper/money]
• When I was at the Planet Hollywood opening in Vancouver, 15,000 people were there and I had to walk down this block-long red carpet while all these girls were yelling and screaming with their pens and paper. It was cool, so what can I say? (Devon Sawa) [people/girls/paper]
• My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it. (Dirk Benedict) [thing/paper/time]
• I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was just going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture. (Johnny Depp) [film/paper/people/take]
• I was in New York just for a week and I was in the paper every day, apparently dating girls I've never met. If I'm gonna get into trouble, it might as well be me causing it, you know what I mean? (Mark Wahlberg) [paper/day/girls]
• But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper. (Scott Caan) [paper]
• Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. (William Shatner) [art/paper/character]
• “I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.” (Amanda Bynes) [paper]
• “What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.” (Julia Roberts) [nice/life/paper]
• I used to like Batman when I was a kid. I was about five years old and my mum had a 1960s belt - remember those wide belts - and I stuck packets of cigarettes to it and painted it yellow and that was my utility belt. And I had a sheet from crepe paper and a mask and that was it. (Gary Oldman) [remember/paper]
• It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph,you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on. (Christopher Meloni) [weird/give/paper]
• When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved. (Connie Sellecca) [paper/water/drawing/water]
• With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami. (Connie Sellecca) [art/paper]
• I guess they liked my look at the time, and I thought, This is just fine! Got my picture in the paper, got a crown, got a trophy. So I just started doing all these dinky little pageants. (Delta Burke) [look/time/paper]
• If I had any skepticism about what I had read in the paper or seen in the wire services, I would try to call people to find out more information. (Tabitha Soren) [paper/services/people/find]

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