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I believe samurai in the Edo period and modern hip-hop artists have something in common. Rappers open the way to their future with one microphone; samurai decided their fate with one sword.
- Shinichiro Watanabe
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
- Victoria Hanley
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Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
- Billy Hughes
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I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.
- Gwendoline Christie
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I ought to have Mike's Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you're a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. For homework, we'll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.
- Mike Leach
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I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death.
- Alan Dale
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.
- Julie Foudy
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'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.
- Ann Leckie
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Kung fu films have to move with the rest of the world. You couldn't keep on doing sword fights in historic films. People wanted superheroes. They wanted something fast and new.
- Sammo Hung
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We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.
- Philip Hammond
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I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
- John Oldham
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
- Florence Welch
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Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.
- Ann Nocenti
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There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.
- Ann Nocenti
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Sir Kenneth MacMillan's version of 'Romeo and Juliet' is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev's breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin.
- Sascha Radetsky
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'The Sword of Shannara' is about two brothers who find themselves on an epic quest to save humanity. It borrows from 'Lord of the Rings' but is still original in its own right. I read it in three days, then reread it, then went out and found every single book Terry Brooks ever wrote, and read all those.
- Sabaa Tahir
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Social media is a double-edged sword. I've gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak.
- Charisma Carpenter
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I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.
- Alexander Dreymon
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I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
- Daniel Baldwin
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
- Caleb Cushing
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Yeah, you know, I like to throw myself on the sword so that others may feel better about themselves. I tell the stories that you all want to forget, but when you remember it, it hopefully makes you laugh.
- Paul Feig
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One shouldn't get carried away by styling, as it can be a double-edged sword. The person should have it in him or her to carry it off.
- Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Give me a sword fight any day.
- Joseph Fiennes
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
- Mary Harris Jones
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The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
- Thomas Francis Meagher
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My words are my sword.
- Christine and the Queens
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We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.
- Chris Murphy
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The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.
- Matthew Pearl
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
- Henry Vaughan
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Calling yourself the 'Best Kept Secret' is a die on your own sword.
- Buddy Murphy
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The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.
- George Rogers Clark
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No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
- Andrew Jackson
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I've always been in love with samurais, that kind of classic idea about a hero who has a sword with an intense skill and is very stoic and doesn't talk much.
- Genndy Tartakovsky
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I can't bring a sword into the ground, so have to make do with the bat.
- Ravindra Jadeja
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Everything in life is a double-edged sword.
- Anita Dobson
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Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.
- Carrie Vaughn
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Technology is a double-edged sword for sure. You can use it to get in touch with somebody, to get to know somebody, to have really meaningful conversations, or you can use it to hurt and bully people.
- Shannon Purser
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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
- Andrei A. Gromyko
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
- J. Michael Straczynski
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
- Larry Kramer
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The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?
- Thomas Becket
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I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan.
- Rza
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I believe passion is the sword of love that pierces through the wall of fears that hold us back.
- Lewis Howes
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The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.
- Marty Feldman
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The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
- Marty Feldman
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Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,' and the best book has to be 'Stormbringer.' And as for that other sword, Excalibur? Pah! Use it to spread your butter.
- Neal Asher
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He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
- Pete Hamill
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The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.
- Stephen Hunter
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King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
- Lloyd Alexander
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The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
- Alexander Cockburn
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I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.
- Nostradamus
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I reject the idea of work-life balance. The phrase is a bald-faced lie, designed to hang over the human psyche like the Sword of Damocles, because balance presumes an even distribution of weight, of value. But anyone who has ever lived understands that no set of tips or tricks can create a lifestyle equilibrium.
- Stacey Abrams
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Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.
- Hugo Chavez
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The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.
- Roy Blount, Jr.
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
- Julia Ward Howe
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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
- Richard Cobden
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A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
- James Stephens
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The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
- Benjamin Whichcote
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Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
- Thomas Bulfinch
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My weapon of choice is the nunchuck. I do like the bo as well, which I use, the staff. I'm not so good with the sword, but I picked a lot of stuff up on 'Ninja 1' with the sword.
- Scott Adkins
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
- Abigail Spencer
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For 'Manikarnika', I've learnt horse riding and sword fighting, so I have gone out of my comfort zone.
- Ankita Lokhande
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I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.
- Sean Bean
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An awesome thing about starting your own business? There's no one there to tell you what to do! But that, you might quickly discover, is a double-edged sword. If you're not careful, you won't shower for four days straight, and you'll spend half your time researching 'girly, stylish office' on Pinterest instead of getting any real work done.
- Rachel Hollis
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There's two sides to the sword. It's like, for as many people that love you, there's all the people out there who hate you.
- Diego Klattenhoff
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In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
- Alvin Dark
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Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.
- Michelle Phan
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A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.
- Jon Jones
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
- Terry Brooks
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Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!
- George Rogers Clark
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To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
- Zack Greinke
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The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
- Julia Ward Howe
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
- Mary Harris Jones
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
- Samuel Johnson
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The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.
- Joyce Meyer
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
- Khalil Gibran
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
- C. S. Lewis
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Dealing with wedding stuff is a bit of a double-edged sword - it seems that divorcees are expected to either burn it all on the front lawn, tears silently coursing down their faces, or keep the stuff, shrine-like, concealed somewhere in their homes.
- Emily V. Gordon
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Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
- Jason Silva
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Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.
- Martin Gore
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
- Earl Warren
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I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character.
- Richard K. Morgan
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We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.
- Michio Kaku
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Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.
- Rhys Darby
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Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
- Kevin Bacon
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Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword.
- David Carradine
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Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
- Tim Roth
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The oil can is mightier than the sword.
- Everett Dirksen
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The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
- Menander
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
- Robert Burton
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
- Zora Neale Hurston
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Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
- Alan Moore
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A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.
- Vinoba Bhave
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Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
- Lucy Liu
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Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
- Lucy Liu
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My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
- John Bunyan
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
- George Herbert
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