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I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history. -- Howard Hawks
Percy: The Heka-what? Annabeth: The Hundred-Handed Ones. They called them that because... well, they had a hundred hands. They were the elder brothers of the Cyclopes. Tyson: Very powerful. Wonderful! As tall as the sky. So strong they can break mountains! Percy: Cool. Unless you're a mountain. -- Rick Riordan
Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. -- Douglas Coupland
So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me. -- Terrence Howard
We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available. -- Meghan Daum
Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique. -- Kevin Conroy
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?' -- Grace Hopper
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. -- Ruth Benedict
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. -- Cecil B. DeMille
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. -- Annie Dillard
By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life. -- Edie Falco
I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have. -- Jared Leto
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences. -- Christopher Lee
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air. -- Wilbur Wright
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me. -- Amanda Crew
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -- Ronald Reagan
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. -- Stephen King
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. -- Tom Chapin
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. -- Stephen King
Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing. -- Angelina Jolie
There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. -- Bill Bryson
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. -- Eminem
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness. -- Erin Gruwell
I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel. -- Shashi Tharoor
I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I've fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I'm a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It's very hard to tell me 'no.' -- Nicole Scherzinger
I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed. -- Mark Wahlberg
I punch left-handed. -- Mike Weir
I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy. -- George W. Bush
All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. -- Walter Benjamin
Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed. -- Evan Esar
No empty handed man can lure a bird -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor. -- John Huston
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight. -- Jerry Coleman
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment. -- Herman Melville
Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth. -- Louise Erdrich
Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. -- John Milton
God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed. -- Max Lucado
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed -- Robert Breault
We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief. -- Whitey Herzog
Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area. -- Willie Stargell
Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. -- Jack Kerouac
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. -- John Huston
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. -- John Huston
Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed. -- Hugo Pratt
In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me. -- Ethel Merman
In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me -- Ethel Merman
I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything. -- Mindy Kaling
There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed. -- Bob Newhart
We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief. -- Whitey Herzog
I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed. -- Dustin Diamond
Let there be no innovation; keep to what has been handed down. -- Pope Stephen I
I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age. -- Boomer Esiason
I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either. -- William Goldman
I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage. -- Bill Keller
The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949. -- Klaus Fuchs
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. -- Victor Hugo
I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group. -- Dan Rather
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. -- Charlotte Bronte
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth. -- Multatuli
A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed. -- Henry Beard
You can't expect anything to be handed to you. And I learned that. -- Asher Roth
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. -- Robert E. Howard
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? -- Veronica Roth
She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists. -- Virginia Wade
I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work! -- Eve Hewson
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed. -- Marlene Dumas
As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues. -- Mike Lowell
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. -- Aldrich Ames
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings. -- John Milton
I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice. -- Tony Campolo
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. -- Susan Meissner
Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. -- Douglas Coupland
Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed. -- Marlo Morgan
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. -- Joel Salatin
I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball. -- Curt Schilling
The most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes. -- Nat Wolff
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them. -- Alice Walker
In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open. -- Dan Abnett
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
On the Trans-Atlantic Single-handed Race Mr Owen Smithers has been disqualified for using both hands. -- Heikki Luoma
If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate. -- Tom Stoppard
When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house. -- Ty Pennington
Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer. -- Lee Trevino
I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section. -- Chic Murray
I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking. -- Bob Sheppard
Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis. -- Gertrude Lawrence
Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration. -- Richard Armitage
Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation. -- James Patterson
I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless. -- Rafael Nadal
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. -- Billy Sunday
I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate. -- Dusty Springfield
I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying. -- Alfred Bester
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. -- Donald Pleasence
I won't look back to regret yesterday, we're not handed tomorrow so I'll live for today -- 3 Doors Down
As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. -- Harry S. Truman
I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler. -- Jack Kirby
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? -- Gale Norton
The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us. -- Megan Smolenyak
Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women. -- Christian Rudder
The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed. -- John Curran
Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them. -- Eric Church
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. -- Thomas Frank
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. -- Ira Glass
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. -- Jacques Derrida
It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree. -- Frank Woolley
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. -- Aristotle
The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money. -- Darrell Issa
There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed. -- Andy Dick
When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much. -- Katie Pavlich
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality. -- Chinua Achebe

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