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  • My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off. -- Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it. -- Barton Gellman
  • Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. -- Winston Churchill
  • If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically. -- Vijay Kumar
  • One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them. -- Manish Dayal
  • Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. -- Alice Walker
  • Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. -- Leon Trotsky
  • Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. -- Lewis Thomas
  • Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels. -- Ben Bernanke
  • I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make. -- Donny Robinson
  • Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact. -- Anthony Holden
  • For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it. -- Alex Graves
  • The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity. -- Andrew Lo
  • I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers. -- Daniel Radcliffe
  • The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that beat independently. This gives it an ability to maneuver in the air with superb dexterity. A dragonfly can put on a burst of speed, stop on a dime, hover, fly backward, and switch direction in a flash. This is a hunting behavior known as hawking. -- Richard Preston
  • Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian. -- Horatio Nelson
  • The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
  • To Jim Duggan, taking a shower is a high risk maneuver. -- Bobby Heenan
  • In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver. -- James Geary
  • In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver. -- Damon Lindelof
  • There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger. -- Demetri Martin
  • Adrian Dantley is a guy that I looked at . . . on how to maneuver my body around. -- Charles Barkley
  • I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres... -- Rob Brown
  • Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial. -- William H. Calvin
  • If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. -- Jaroslav Seifert
  • In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds. -- Erich Hartmann
  • If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams? -- Yann Martel
  • The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a "dangerous enemy. -- Saul
  • The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary. -- Guy de Maupassant
  • Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. -- Jon Meacham
  • Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette. -- Grantland Rice
  • The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out. -- Scott Wood
  • Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage. -- Sun Tzu
  • My suspicion is that his hard-core supporters, you know, when I interviewed some of them, they almost take kind of vicarious pride in Donald Trump`s ability to maneuver. -- Michelle Goldberg
  • True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar. -- RuPaul
  • I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent. -- William Regal
  • Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces. -- David Adjaye
  • Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today. -- William V. Shannon
  • I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination; it's all discrimination. -- Malcolm X
  • If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death. -- Eddie Izzard
  • I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver. -- Erich Hartmann
  • Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt. -- Ray Fitzgerald
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