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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.
To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.
Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The 'Def Jam Poetry' on HBO is just so sick to me.
The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
I cried after I woke up from surgery and saw that my finger was gone. I was looking at my hand, going, 'Where the hell is my finger at?'
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
If you want to shake a hand, if you want a story, I'll be more than happy to sit down with you and talk with you. It's what I love to do.
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other.
I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.
When greeting Pope Benedict a few years ago, I was meant to kiss the papal ring but I head-butted his hand instead. He just laughed at me.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
I was known as a dogged, unflappable live reporter, the kind who runs barefoot to the camera, high heels in one hand, notebook in the other.
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.
A lot of times I've reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn't have nobody to help them when they were down and out.
Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans - often children - lose their lives.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.
All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.