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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams / Writer
Time
Humorous
Illusion
Lunchtime
Philosophy
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich Nietzsche / Philologist
Truth
Fake People
Lying
Simple
Truth Is
Truth Lie Truth Is
Doubly
Lie
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When something bad happens, you're bound to be doubly careful.
Nikita Thukral /
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott / Baronet Scott
Loneliness
Lonely
Thinking
Companions
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As you get older it gets doubly hard to keep yourself fit and in shape.
Steve Harris /
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Shape
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It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.
Jill Soloway / Comedian
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Lady
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Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.
Stephen Hough /
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Obviously, gay projects play a special role for me because I am gay, so I'm doubly proud of them.
Jonathan Groff / Actor
Projects
Special
Me I Am Gay
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Gay I Am Me
Obviously
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Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Colin Powell / Former United States Secretary Of State
Leadership
Details
Distracted
Leader
Mind
Neglect
Vigilant
Everyone
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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Herodotus / Historian
Calumny
Injured
Believes
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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
John Updike / Novelist
Arise
Artist
Masterpiece
Novel
Talented
Doubly
See Why Reason
Intrinsic
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
William Proxmire / Former United States Senator
Power
Dangerous
Exercise
National Security
Political
Secret
Security
Check
Cloak
Doubly
National
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I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.
Kerry Stokes / Businessman
Hard Work
Public Speaking
Doubly
Skill
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
Kabir Bedi / Film Actor
Continent
Doubly
Eligible
Irrespective
Minority
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I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.
Elayne Boosler / Comedian
Thankful
Artist
Good People
Matter
People
Good I Am People
Doubly
Geniuses
Idiots
Recognized
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My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes a brand; readers know what to expect.
Sophie Kinsella / Author
Different Names
Disconnected
Life Your Know
Author
Doubly
Readers
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You have that first joy of finding work, and then to become part of a show like 'Call the Midwife' - which I have watched religiously with my mum since it started -is doubly brilliant.
Charlotte Ritchie /
Midwife
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I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.
Teresita Sy-Coson /
Hard Work
Long Hours
Family Work Hard Work
Fairly
Belong
Doubly
Family Work Long
Recognised
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In these difficult times, the feeling of solidarity with my Jewish co-religionists is doubly gratifying and comforting in view of the deprivation of rights with which German Jews are now forced to live.
Max Liebermann /
Comforting
Deprivation
Difficult Times
Solidarity
Jewish
German
Doubly
Forced
Gratifying
Jews
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As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.
Lea Thompson / Actress
Naturally
Doubly
Older
Hide
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The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
War
Antisocial
Entity
Intellectual
Levels
Mass
Develop
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Low
Theoretically
Wage
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People are more willing to dislike your music and want to find faults in you when you are given opportunities like in my case. But I think in my case, people love my work and that's why I have to work doubly hard.
Anoushka Shankar / Composer
Dislike
Love Work Music
Doubly
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My family, my mom in particular, got so much love and appreciation from the audience. As a consequence, I have also got some of that love. I now have to work doubly hard to prove that I deserve it, on my own, also.
Janhvi Kapoor /
Appreciation
Consequence
Love Family Work
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My parents never planted the seed that anything was impossible. They planted the seed that things were doubly hard for a black man. My brothers and I made sure we outworked people and were better than everyone we were around.
Malcolm Brogdon /
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Planted
Seed
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Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an author's existence and find out that we ought to have been reading him or her all along.
Ben Dolnick /
Educational
Ought
Author
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Simultaneously
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'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.
Ben Okri / Poet
Beauty
Ancient
Enchanted
Vision
Works
Doubly
Early
Effect
Formative
Stays
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When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.
Dr. Dre / Record Producer
Aftermath
Driving
Focus
Plus
Artists
Crushing
Doubly
Ended
Sit
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The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.
Freeman Dyson / Physicist
Accepted
Barriers
Common
Helping
International
Literature
Mankind
Nationality
Race
Across
Club
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Member
Tie
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Certain
Danger
Destruction
Goal
Impervious
Looks
Monsters
Night
Resolute
Silent
Steady
Battalion
Full
Doubly
Engine
Mission
Marching
Menacing
Monster
Onward
Restrained
Sweep
Thus
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I've been fortunate most of the seven promotions I've won have been with sides I built from zero, so it is doubly rewarding. There is nothing to match being in the dressing room celebrating promotion after a long season with a group of lads you have put together.
Neil Warnock / Football Manager
Promotion
Sides
Celebrating
Doubly
Dressing
Dressing Room
Lads
Rewarding
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I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did.
Martin Campbell /
Cameraman
Money Me Know
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Earn
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All fraudulent elections should be condemned, including those in Turkey and Russia. And we need to be doubly mindful not to indulge amateur socialists in this country, because even though a Bernie Sanders presidency is a joke, the consequences of diet communism are deadly serious.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery /
Diet
Communism
Including
Indulge
Presidency
Russia
Serious
Consequences
Amateur
Bernie Sanders
Condemned
Elections
Joke
Deadly
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Fraudulent
Mindful
Socialists
Turkey
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
Naturi Naughton / Singer-Songwriter
Black
Focus
Giving Up
Prepared
Work Myself Focus
Correctly
Disciplined
Doubly
Motivates
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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
Lev Grossman / Novelist
Country
Intolerance
Marketplace
Paper
Practice
Printing
Shipping
Touring
Writing
Doubly
Increasing
Novels
Promote
Showing
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We like layers of character and personality in our storytelling. We like very distinctive, unique personalities interacting with each other. And I think, because there are two of us, and we're a collective, we identify with that. We call it the mastermind principle: Two minds aren't doubly better than one - they're exponentially better than one.
Joe Russo /
Distinctive
Interacting
Layers
Storytelling
Collective
Doubly
Exponentially
Identify
Personalities
Principle
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