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My success, literally, is your success figuratively.
Bo Burnham / Comedian
Figuratively
Literally
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When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.
John Cornyn / United States Senator
Figuratively
Literally
Rains
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Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.
Robert Zubrin / Author
Figuratively
Powers
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I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.
Al Jarreau / Singer
Distance
Figuratively
Runner
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I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.
David Sylvian / Singer
My Own
Voice
Figuratively
Literally
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Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.
Alicia Garza /
Dignity
Black People Matter
Figuratively
Literally
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A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Fall
Seems
Sky
Snow
Wonder
Like
Thing
Day
Falls
Figuratively
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Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
John Gielgud / Actor
Bed
Doubt
Gentleman
No Doubt
Style
Figuratively
Gentlemen
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Don't try to walk in someone else's shoes - literally and figuratively. Wear what you feel confident in.
Kunal Khemu /
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Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.
Leeza Gibbons / Host
Doors
Figuratively
Literally
Slammed
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Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
Josie Maran / Model
Alone
Business
Heavy
Husband
Lifting
Partners
Life Business My Life
Life Alone My Life
Business Partner
Figuratively
Luckily
My Life
Well
Partner
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In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
Gene Tunney / Professional Boxer
Running
Sports
Exercise
Plenty
Youth
Approaches
Figuratively
Literally
Settle
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I don't want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around... don't want to be a piece of furniture in films.
Rishi Kapoor /
Furniture
Figuratively
Hanging
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In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.
Alan Cheuse / Writer
Beaten
Customs
Ireland
Pious
Scandalous
Watches
Friend
Eventually
Figuratively
Literally
Narrator
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Growing up South African, I was comparatively in a world of privilege, especially being the youngest and being figuratively wrapped up in cotton wool by the rest of the family.
Jodi Balfour /
Cotton
Privilege
Wool
African
Comparatively
Figuratively
South African
Wrapped
Youngest
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Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.
Shirley Chisholm / American Politician
Commitment
Dark
Horse
My Soul
Poor
American People
Soul Me People
Figuratively
Literally
The Only Thing
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When I opened my solo practice, I made it a priority to put my patients' experience first and foremost. This involves making them feel comfortable, both literally and figuratively.
Jennifer Ashton / Physician
Solo
Figuratively
Foremost
Involves
Opened
Patients
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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.
Stephen Jay Gould / Paleontologist
Break
Hammers
Motto
Order
Tools
Meant
Figuratively
Literally
Main
Reveal
Tool
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It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
Ben Shapiro / Commentator
Ancient
Civilization
East
Epic
Including
Although
Amoral
Own
Version
Take
Possible
Figuratively
Near
Noah
Story
Virtually
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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. Truman / 33Rd U.s. President
Country
Crow
Desire
Eating
Get Together
Political
Turkeys
Anybody
Figuratively
No Desire
Otherwise
Pleases
Turkey
Whenever
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Kickstarter can get customers invested, both literally and figuratively, in a game before it is released. With nothing but an idea, a bit of video and a few screenshots, a developer can start building a loyal fan base.
Jason Schreier /
Loyal
Base
Developer
Fan Base
Figuratively
Invested
Released
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Unlike the on-air talents in the NFL where they have producers figuratively joined at their hip, providing them with info and tidbits of data, we WWE announcers are responsible for getting ourselves ready for every broadcast.
Jim Ross / Professional Wrestling Referee
Announcers
Nfl
Providing
Broadcast
Talents
Figuratively
Unlike
Hip
Joined
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Jay-Z is a hero, Sam Walton is a hero - these are not exactly communitarian champions. These are - in some cases, literally; in others, just figuratively - gangster heroes. That's who is worshipped: people who get away with it.
George Packer / Journalist
Cases
Hero
Heroes
Gangster
Champions
Exactly
Figuratively
Jay-Z
Literally
Sam
Worshipped
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
Barbara Mandrell / Singer
Figuratively
Lights
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I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.
Susan Estrich / Lawyer
Civility
Fox News
Supreme
Supreme Court
Commentator
Effective
Event
Figuratively
Fox
Smiling
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When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
Natasha Trethewey / Poet
Broccoli
Figuratively
Reminded
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Children are keenly aware of every situation where mother figuratively wears the pants in the home, and they're scornful of her for it. By the same token, the same attitude on the part of their father commands respect, even If it may at times engender fear.
Lorne Greene /
Pants
Commands
Figuratively
Scornful
Token
Wears
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One of my best friends, Stephen Sprouse, Bill Dugan, and I worked designing clothes, doing every conceivable thing. New York was a really intoxicating period for me, literally and figuratively. There was a lot of overlap with Andy Warhol, Studio 54, and Halston.
Dennis Christopher / Film Actor
Warhol
Best Me New
Andy
Best Me Doing
Designing
Figuratively
Intoxicating
Overlap
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What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.
Stacey D'erasmo / Novelist
Apartment
Distance
Length
Now And Then
Figuratively
Right And Wrong
Surprisingly
Travels
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My political career began on the other side of the fence from the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore - both literally and figuratively. As a young intern for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, I was tasked with attending a Moore rally four days before the general election.
Kayleigh Mcenany /
Attending
Election
Fence
Figuratively
General Election
Intern
Moore
Political Career
Rally
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As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good in her little private theatricals. But her desire to be a heroine, both literally and figuratively, was shocking to the French.
Amanda Foreman /
Accounts
Acting
Desire
Fulfilled
Needs
Shocking
Unhappy
Life Good More
Quite
Attracted
Became
French
Figuratively
Heroine
Literally
Private
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I am not comparing myself to great artists, but when you see conceptual artists at work, on some level it's reassuring to know they can paint figuratively. Likewise, when you listen to the '50s jazz people who do these vast solos, you buy into it more if they open by playing a tune.
Stewart Lee / Comedian
Jazz
Paint
Reassuring
Work Great Myself
Artists
Open
Buy
Comparing
Conceptual
Vast
Figuratively
Likewise
Solos
Tune
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I thought psychologists were people who rob, figuratively of course, money from the insecure. But they are not. They are people who are there to help you, and if you find a good psychologist, they will allow you to talk about everything and open up, without the slightest of fears, and that is no easy thing.
Gianluigi Buffon / Goalkeeper
Insecure
Psychologist
Good Money People
Easy Thing
Fears
Figuratively
Rob
Slightest
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I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world.
Nicholas Kristof /
Software
Anyway
Awaken
Coding
Fictional
Figuratively
Philosophers
Poorer
Souls
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When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively.
Natalie Dormer / Film Actress
Angle
Covered
Freedom Of Speech
Speech
Syria
Western
Western Society
Figuratively
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Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.
Peter Guber / Film Producer
Attending
Brother
Execution
Graduate School
Law School
Marine
School
Serving
Vietnam
Bought
Drafted
Drew
Figuratively
Film Business
Graduate
Literally
Marines
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I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
Binoculars
Sky
Transformed
Buildings
Figuratively
Literally
Pair
Picking
Windows
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