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Tag Name "Scrambling" (25)

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I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
Morgan Freeman
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When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: You're going to get through this.
Nelly Furtado
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The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.
Robert Adams
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It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.
Sonia Delaunay
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On the acting side, they actually tell us to lie about things that we don't know and later scramble to learn. Do you ride horses? Yes, I do. I think scrambling is the death of most of us in the industry.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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I must apologize for calling so late, said he, and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.
Bill Bailey
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
Brennan Manning
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On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.
David Hayter
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They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
John Adams
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In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage, and countries are scrambling to secure their own parochial interests at the expense of the common good.
Lester R. Brown
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When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
Lorne Michaels
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I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
Maurice Sendak
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We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.
Mr. Lif
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With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore
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When you get home after being gone for a month or two, time moves on without you. You're scrambling to catch up with the people. Some friends and family understand, but then there are others who just think that you can't find enough time in your life for them.
Sharon Van Etten
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The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
Susan Orlean
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Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.
Beth Moore
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This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible.
Brandon Mull
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When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace
Danny Glover
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I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness betrayal fruitless searches for love working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.
David Rakoff
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It can be stressful if I wrote something that I realize doesn't sound right. I can write something at home and be like, Great. Nailed it. Then I'm like, No one should have to say those words. That doesn't make any sense. It's a lot of scrambling.
Katie Dippold
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I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.
Matt Taibbi
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