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I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.
Luke Evans / Actor
Different
Slippery Slope
Thinking
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When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
John Mccarthy /
Instinct
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Terrace
Build
Slope
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Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
Anne Campbell / Politician
Firsts
Selfishness
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Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
William A. Henry Iii / Critic
Departure
Firsts
Slippery Slope
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Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
Thomas Peterffy / Entrepreneur
Little Bit
Littles
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Slopes
Little
Rules
Bit
Bend
Slope
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More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
Henry Rollins / Musician
Safety
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Guns
Slope
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Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.
Jonathan Haidt / Psychologist
Firsts
Slippery Slope
Steps
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I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
Mark Waid / Writer
Meddling
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Tinkering
Big Fan
Fan
George
George Lucas
Lucas
Slope
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One cheat meal is fine, but keep it at one, because if you do another, then it's a slippery slope.
Aditya Roy Kapur /
Fine
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Meal
Slope
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Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
Leon Kass / Scientist
Boundaries
Hands
Human Life
No Boundaries
Slippery
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Slope
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The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
Gever Tulley / Writer
All Things
Dangerous
Safe
Slippery
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Behaviors
Slope
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I have been reporting on celebrity stuff my whole career and am very aware that fame is a slippery slope.
Wendy Williams / Media Person
Slippery
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Reporting
Slope
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I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
Michelle Shocked / Singer
Faith
Devil
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Soul
Sell
Fail
Slope
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Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
Dennis Ross /
Concerned
Sanctions
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Stronger
Europeans
Slope
Table
Toward
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If you have your own money, you feel entitled to spending your own money how you'd like to, and that's a slippery slope.
Noah Centineo /
Entitled
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Slope
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Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.
Rick Santorum / Former United States Senator
Boxes
Pandora's Box
Slippery Slope
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And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.
Rebecca Kleefisch / Lieutenant Governor Of Wisconsin
Men
Christian
Slippery Slope
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And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.
Adam Scott /
Caught
Perceive
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Slope
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Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.
Dan Ariely / Professor
Believe
Persons
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
Gaby Hoffmann / Film Actress
Illness
Mental Illness
Slippery
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Diagnosed
Overly
Prescribed
Slope
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If you are not willing to be a lone wolf, keep your truth to yourself. If you want acceptance and your truths to be spoken, it is a slippery slope.
Pooja Bhatt / Film Actress
Truth
Acceptance
Lone
Lone Wolf
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Willing
Willing Yourself Your
Slope
Spoken
Truths
Wolf
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Celebrities might be experts when it comes to working the red carpet, but relying on them to guide your health and wellness can be a slippery slope.
Harley Pasternak / Personal Trainer
Carpet
Experts
Red Carpet
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Wellness
Celebrities
Guide
Relying
Slope
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Vodka eyeballing sounds great, but it's a slippery slope. Next, you'll be scotch nostriling, tequila nippling and, before you know it, Jager tainting.
Stephen Colbert / Satirist
Next
Scotch
Slippery Slope
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I think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.
Teyonah Parris /
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Social Media
Social Media People Media
Onto
Projecting
Slope
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There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Alan K. Simpson / American Politician
Loss
Slippery
Slippery Slope
American People
Downward
Leaders
Liberties
Slope
Staircase
Tolerated
Toward
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I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.
Mark Cuban / Businessman
People
Slippery Slope
Thinking
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The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
David Baltimore / Biologist
Calling
Cloning
Congress
People
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Therapeutic
Allow
Reproductive
Slope
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I believe there's been a slippery slope of new companies that have formed in the name of on-demand services... that maybe aren't having as much of a focus as they should on the worker.
Leah Busque /
Slippery
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Worker
Focus Believe I Believe
Formed
Services
Slope
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Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is a dangerous and slippery slope.
Kerry Kennedy / Writer
Criteria
Notion
Orientation
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Sexual
Leads
Slope
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
Iain Banks / Author
Legal
Legal System
People
Situation
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Torture
Society Where People
Allow
Instantly
Reasons
Slope
Soon
System
Trivial
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Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Able
Argument
Doctors
Euthanasia
Influential
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Die
Once
Against
Allow
Limit
Patients
Slope
Voluntary
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In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.
Carre Otis / Model
Dependence
Hopeful
Illness
Next
Past
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Cure
In The Past
Led
Medications
Prescription
Reached
Slope
Ultimately
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Barbara Lee / U.s. Representative
War
Congress
Erosion
Giving Up
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Paying
Slope
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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
Halle Berry / Actress
Plastic
Plastic Surgery
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Surgery
Thinking
Way
Oh My God
Pull
Slope
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And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.
Kristen Stewart / Actress
Funny
Games
Play
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Funny Myself Always
Benefit
Mine
Remaining
Slope
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It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.
Dave Itzkoff /
Endure
Slippery
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Art Form
Hip
Hop
Origins
Slope
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I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.
Chelsea Handler / Comedian
Comedian
Offensive
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Me Anything Find
First Place
Paying
Publicly
Slope
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Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
Stu Jackson / Basketball Coach
Basketball
Numbers
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Begin
Calls
Reviewed
Slope
Ultimately
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I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws - some meaningful, some unproductive - the right yells 'slippery slope' and hides behind the Constitution.
S.e. Cupp /
Gun
Mass
Meaningful
Participating
Predictable
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Unproductive
Calls
Cycle
Gun Laws
Hides
Sick And Tired
Slope
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A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.
Clyde Edgerton / Author
Parenting
Slippery
Slippery Slope
May People Sometimes
Raise
Slope
Well-Intentioned
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This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Ray Comfort / Evangelist
Wisdom
Dangerous
Evil
Generations
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Solomon
Beginning
Changing
Embraced
Saw
Previous
Radically
Reject
Slope
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It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.
Cornel West / Philosopher
Down And
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Thinking
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The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. / Critic
Accurate
California
Critical
Slippery
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Wine
Premise
Slope
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There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.
Ken Ham /
Marriage
Authority
Emphasis
Genesis
Ideas
Regard
Scripture
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Outside
Slope
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The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
Ron Wyden / United States Senator
Bills
Concerned
Groups
Legislation
Lobbyists
Senate
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Sneak
Special
Special Interest Groups
Allow
Creates
Included
Large
Provisions
Slope
Special Interest
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I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.
Sturgill Simpson / Singer-Songwriter
Building
Electric
Electric Guitar
Fascinated
Guitar
Guitar Player
Player
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Anymore
Became
Consider
Slope
Winding
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People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.
Kerry Washington / Actress
Barack
Civil Rights
Illegal
Okay
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Allowed
Civil
Marry
Several
Slope
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Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At what price are they willing to go back on years of proclaiming 'socialized medicine' as the slippery slope to 'rationing of health care,' 'death panels' and other claims far too gruesome to mention in polite company?
Ronnie Musgrove / American Politician
Death
Health
Care
Claims
Company
Expansion
Health Care
Medicaid
Moral
Polite
Proclaiming
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Willing
Health Political Care
Conservatives
Elected
Far
Gruesome
Mention
Price
Rationing
Slope
Socialized
Telling
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