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Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
Paul Rudd is a huge 'Hot Rod' fan.
I'm a lightning rod for the anti-Brexit brigade.
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
I fell in love with having my feet in the water and a fly rod in my hands.
Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.
Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.
My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.
Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.
Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.
I broke five vertebrae, and they had to rod my spine because I broke my sternum, too.
I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.
I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.
Rod always dresses for dinner - even if I just want to wear tracksuit bottoms, he dresses up.
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
Rod and I are living a very charmed and fortunate life, and I wouldn't change it for the world.
The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
You never know how many times you're going to be able to come out on Rod Laver Arena and just play.
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
I love 'The Twilight Zone,' the original black and white ones with Rod Serling's wee bit at the beginning.
My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.
One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.
If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.
Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.
I saw The Jeff Beck Group at the Marquee Club in 1967, when he was with Rod Stewart, and holy smokes, they were amazing.
When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.
Rod and I believe that it's our duty to set an example, which means teaching our children to treat others as they would wish to be treated.
Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
Rod and I are naturally in love, and that is what binds us together. But to keep the spark alive in your relationship, you really have to work at it.
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
You have seen it: You can put something into the world, and all of a sudden, everybody believes that. Like throwing a fishing rod and the fish bite into.
There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.
We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?
Black with flames, that's how I always envisioned a roadster. That was the classic hot rod. I used to draw pictures of roadsters with flames on them in school.
I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.
We don't discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We've been trained that it's such a lightning rod that we don't even want to say the word.
I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
Rod Carew told me once that for those that know you, no explanation is necessary, and for those that don't know you, none is possible. That's the philosophy I live by.