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I am often the brunt of my own humor.
Charles R. Swindoll / Pastor
Humor
I Am Own My Own
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We've all been the brunt of jokes at times.
Jonathan Banks / Actor
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I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.
Joey Mcintyre / Singer-Songwriter
Jokes
Long
Mind
Good Mind Long
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
Ingrid Newkirk / Activist
Animal
Oppression
Suffering
World
Bear
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The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.
Lynn Nottage / Playwright
Closest
Frustration
Bear
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Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
Andrew Lloyd Webber / Composer
Budgets
Educational
Short Sighted
Borne
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Cuts
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
Mindy Mccready / Singer
Lines
Made
Views
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Punch
Punch Line
Tarnished
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A progressive digital ad revenue tax would also make sure that dominant social media platforms bear the brunt of the tax.
Paul Romer / Economist
Digital
Dominant
Platforms
Progressive
Revenue
Social Media
Tax
Ad
Bear
Brunt
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During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life.
Greg Rutherford / Athlete
Life Yourself Your
Condition
Bear
Brunt
Peak
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Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.
Pinarayi Vijayan /
Farmers
Minorities
Risen
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
Harold Pinter / Playwright
Selfish
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Competitive
Highly
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Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.
Raja Krishnamoorthi /
Cruelty
Will More American
American Families
Bear
Brunt
Will American More
Devastating
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Not one of the 9/11 terrorists entered through Mexico - and yet Mexicans bore the brunt of this country's immigration response to the terror attacks.
Beto O'rourke /
Immigration
Mexico
Response
Terror
Attacks
Brunt
Entered
Terrorists
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I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison / Novelist
Smile
Annoyed
Contempt
People
Understanding
Always People Black
Totally
Bear
Brunt
Always Black People
Demons
Smiling
Suddenly
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If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
John O. Brennan /
Afghanistan
Iraq
Response
Troops
Attack
Battlefield
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Citizen
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Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.
Tracey Gold / Actress
Sad
Desperate
Gone
Husband
Taken
Time Family Sad
Brunt
Difficult Time
Family Sad Time
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener / Professor
Charity
Community
Country
Extraordinary
Faith Based
Organization
Poverty
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Initiatives
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My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
Annie Lennox / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Developing
Developing Countries
Issues
Obvious
Visiting
Bore
Brunt
Countries
Incredibly
Issue
Stimulated
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Americans have carried the burden of our government's heavy-handed approach to environmental regulation for far too long - with rural and disadvantaged communities bearing the brunt.
Andrew R. Wheeler /
Environmental
Burden
Disadvantaged
Regulation
Bearing
Brunt
Carried
Heavy-Handed
Rural
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Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
Bobby Farrelly / Film Director
Real Life
Twins
Heroes
Life Love Long
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My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.
Katharine Graham / Publisher
Sister
Force
Lucky
Middle Aged
Newness
Parenthood
Position
Ruth
Younger Sister
Younger
Bore
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Neither
Nor
Turned
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Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.
Matthew Desmond /
Assistance
Denied
Housing
Arguably
Bearing
Brunt
Moms
Stamped
Systematically
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Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.
Mary Pilon /
Jobs
Computers
Finance
Counterparts
Office
Replaced
Male
Bore
Brunt
Layoffs
Likely
Recession
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Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.
Ginny Brown-Waite / Former U.s. Representative
Design
Circumstances
Clouds
Dark
Fate
Florida
Harsh
Hurricanes
Sunshine
Unfortunate
Appears
Bearing
Brunt
State
Dealt
Poised
Visit
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
Ted Deutch /
Class Warfare
Deficit
Fairness
Fortunate
Reduction
Warfare
Believe Look I Believe
Bear
Brunt
Believe I Believe Look
Deficit Reduction
Seniors
Suggest
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Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven, they will go to jail and bear the same brunt of punishment as any other criminal.
Andrea Leadsom / Member Of Parliament
Bankers
Chamber
Colleagues
Jail
Proven
Punishment
Bear
Brunt
Criminal
Rightly
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Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gallon, and Katrina, and whenever we're at war, that person sitting in the White House gets the brunt of the accusations.
Jerry Falwell / Pastor
Accusation
Gas
White House
Brunt
Gallon
Second Term
Whoever
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A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.
Kelela /
Blackness
Careless
Currency
Music Industry
Participating
Promoting
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I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
Michael Richards / Actor
Anger
Audience
Busted
Hate
Rage
Sorry
Blacks
Brunt
Hispanics
Took
Whites
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I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.
Deborah Eisenberg / Short Story Writer
Anger
Justified
Miserable
Brunt
Suffered
Gratifying
Tremendously
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This is the thing: I know I'm paving the way for the next generation of girls, and they're not going to have to do this. That's what I hope. I'll take the brunt work and just handle it, and then you guys can just sail right on through.
Ashley Graham / Model
Handle
Paving
Sail
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You Guys
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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
Depression
Careful
Crisis
Great Depression
Impact
Long Term
Thanks
Unemployment
Bearing
Brunt
Damaging
Depths
Profoundly
Studies
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And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.
Dave Eggers / Writer
Home
Able
Classroom
People
Workplace
Work Home People
Brunt
Directly
Thousands
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The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the absence of family-friendly work policies, is expected to adjust her paid work to shoulder the brunt of domestic responsibilities.
Stephanie Coontz / Author
Absence
Default
Expected
Gender
Inequality
Regard
Adjust
Brunt
Domestic
Family-Friendly
Policies
Responsibilities
Shoulder
Stems
Tendency
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In the late '90s, the magazine formerly known as 'The Wizard' came after me strong and hard. I was the brunt of jokes for an entire staff of angry fanboys; as much as can be poured on was poured on. But I kept focus, as anyone in that situation should.
Rob Liefeld /
Staff
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Wizard
Magazine
Poured
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Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences of war. They are left as the providers and guardians, responsible for rebuilding their country one family at a time.
Philomena Kwao /
Conflict
Ongoing
Providers
Rebuilding
Regions
Time War Family
Bear
Brunt
War Time Family
War Family Time
Guardians
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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.
Nick Clegg / Deputy Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Asking
British
Contribution
Majority
People
Population
Thinking
Wave
People Will New
Additional
Bear
Brunt
Vast
Fiscal
People New Will
Incomes
Low
Vast Majority
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