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«We covered 'Hey, Jude.' My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out 'Hey, Jew' to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.»
Author: Ben Stiller
(Actor)
| Keywords:
belting, belts, belt up, covered, holocaust, holocausts, Jew, Jude, lead singer, lyric, lyrics, misunderstanding, panicked, roomful, singer, The holocaust
«The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.»
Author: Emilio Ambasz
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chair, covered, elevates, executive, predecessor, preferably, sitter, sitters, skin, The Skin
«Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.»
Author: Norman R. Augustine
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auditor, auditors, covered, headquarters, thirds, two-thirds
«The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Aristocracy,
Democracy
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American elder, aristocratic, breaking, colours, covered, democratic, from time to time, layer, layered, surface, surface of
«True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Realism
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covered, prevents, realism, revealing, surprising
«Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.»
«The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.»
Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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covered
«The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It doe»
«The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
covered, human voice, small voice, voice of conscience
«The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.»
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