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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.
The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don't give a damn about my future, I won't either.
I think it is up to each one of us to find the time and strike a balance between work and our personal life.
I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
I feel as if I was to strike on one thing that I was decent at was mentally where I prepared myself strongly.
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.
If ISIS strikes, it's going to strike Americans - not Republicans or Democrats. This is not partisan politics.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.
I have fulfilled all my dreams in Bollywood. Now I have to find new dreams for Bollywood before I strike again.
Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.
My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.
It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
In Delhi, I have never taken an auto, while in Mumbai, if there is an auto strike, my life will come to a full stop.
It is my philosophy that one should not excel in only one thing but try to strike a balance between different things.
I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.
It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.
Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.
We want to strike the right balance between the governments and our users. If there are concerns, we can work together.
I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.
The power to stay your hand is far greater than the power to strike with your hand and hinsa has no place in the society.
We need to strike better trade deals, but we need to do it in a way that ensures that we are at the table on these deals.
Swearing's my release. It's the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.
Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.
I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
Life's so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.
I've had many strike partners over the years and usually their aim is to outscore you - and take great pleasure in doing so.