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I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.
Pia Zadora / Actress
Love
Home
Advice
Fall
Love Home Myself
Jump
Sack
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The sack is a sad fact of life for football managers. I have been axed three times. The chairman at Notts County was on record as saying it's the worst thing they ever did. Within a couple of years they were one game from losing league status.
Neil Warnock / Football Manager
County
Managers
Sack
Status
Worst Thing
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That is the difference from being a manager and being a player: As a player, if you sign a contract for four years, if you want to be there for four years, you are. But as a manager, it always depends on the sack. You are always under pressure.
Mauricio Pochettino / Soccer Player
Contract
Manager
Sack
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That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!
Robert Mccloskey / Writer
Acceptance
Book
Necks
Paper
Rope
Tied
Bag
Neck
Exciting Time
Paper Bag
Sack
Spilled
Sudden
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With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.
Jason Dolley / Actor
Found
One Day
Recess
Day People One Day
Somebody
Sixth
Brought
Loved
Downhill
Getting
Grade
Sack
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Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Cotton
Give Me
Me Never Young
Farm
Fill
Me Young Never
Handed
Sack
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Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.
Tom Brokaw / Journalist
Christmas
Beach
California
Dolls
Dresses
Loaded
Santa
Seventies
Daughters
Early
Popular
Sack
Sometime
Toy
Trucks
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You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.
George Saunders / Writer
Kids
Armani
Dresses
Games
Materialism
Parent
Ascendant
Cloth
Other Kids
Rampant
Sack
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I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider New York my home, and L.A. a place that I go. I always say I go with an empty sack and try to fill it with as much money as possible to bring back to New York.
Julie White /
Brooklyn
Empty
Love Home Money
As Much Money
Bacon
Fill
Love Money Home
Sack
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I used to wear these big shapeless clothes and ended up just looking like a potato in a sack. I've learnt now to accentuate the bits that I'm happiest with. That's probably my waist - a lot of my clothes go in at the waist and emphasise my hips, which I'm very proud of.
Jameela Jamil /
Accentuate
Bits
Clothes
Hips
Proud
Used
Ended
Happiest
Wear
Just Looking
Learnt
Potato
Sack
Waist
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You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when they don't do well, they get the sack. Football is a tough world. Those who watch enjoy it - for everybody else, there are a lot of challenges.
Vincent Tan / Businessman
Another Day
Hero
Villain
Applauded
Everybody Else
Manager
Sack
They Say
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I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Running
Barbaric
Forever
Sleep
Thinking
Tyranny
Work Out
Bag
Work Myself Thinking
Girdle
Million
Million Years
Reject
Sack
Shape
Sleeping
Treat
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I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.
Greg Gutfeld / Television Personality
Men
Adam
Bash
Daring
Edgy
Fox News
Mean
Musician
Predictable
Rebellious
Stance
Subversive
Young Man
Twitter
Fox
Sack
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You ask somebody right now who are the top two or three sack persons and they couldn't tell you. You're a professional and you want to perform and you want to achieve those goals. But being out with the people and giving back to the community, it's going to be more impactful and long lasting.
Julius Peppers / American Football Player
Giving Back
Lasting
Sack
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We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!
Blake Shelton / Singer
Bus
Lap
Paper
Me People Live
Flowers
Few People
Handed
Little Girl
Onto
Opened
Sack
Screamed
Shirt
Stuffed
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I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.
Mary Roach / Author
Animal
Guts
Humans
Mating
Snoring
Neck
Reminded
Sack
Sleeping
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Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.
Paul Engle / Poet
Brown
Envy
Evening
Fireworks
July
Neighborhood
Paper
Precious Stones
Stones
Touch
Bought
Handling
Precious
Sack
Third
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A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.
Julius Peppers / American Football Player
Picture
Time Work Game
Cats
Effect
Work Time Game
Indicator
Sack
Statistic
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I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.
Brendan Rodgers / Football Manager
Chairman
Backing
Sack
Three-Year
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I reckon every player feels much the same on the eve of a Six Nations championship. We all want to finish top, win the title and do our respective countries proud in the process. We're also aware a lot of other people are seeking precisely the same thing. Pessimism and optimism collide like two ferrets in a sack.
James Haskell /
Championship
Pessimism
Seeking
Eve
Precisely
Reckon
Respective
Sack
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The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.
Sharan Burrow /
Chains
Conditions
Fearful
Insecure
Intense
Wages
Workers
Contractors
Exploitative
Formed
Sack
Supply
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When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep.
Tina Brown / Journalist
Deaf
Dialogue
Pillow
Possession
Sleep
Theme
Good Home Always
Hit
Brought
Bush
Campaign
Feather
George
George W
George W. Bush
Precious
Sack
Trail
Voices
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