"If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer."
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"In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten."
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"I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics."
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"Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view."
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"I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is."
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"Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike."
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"Hammer your thoughts into unity."
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"I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out."
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"Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver."
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"Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it."
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"I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show."
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"It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!"
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"Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers."
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"When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill."
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"I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it."
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"When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail."
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"I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this."
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"Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment."
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"I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence."
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"I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal."
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