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There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.
There's also one of burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee's slinky black beaded costumes, which turned many a head back in the day. And don't forget the outfit worn by the " Viking Giant " himself, Johann K. Peturson.
" Said Lord himself, " There's a way of playing a Hammond different.
" Tufts University political science professor Jeffrey Berry described himself as " not comfortable " with the designation: " There's probably some things that have been said by one or two individuals that qualify as hate speech.
One passage in The Road to Oz, by Baum himself, wherein the Woodman attends Ozma's birthday party accompanied by a Winkie band playing a song called " There's No Plate Like Tin ," strongly implies that this is the case.
In 2003, he authored a book called There's a God on the Mic ( ISBN 1-56025-533-1 ), which breaks down his 50 favorite MCs in terms of originality, concepts, versatility, vocabulary, substance, flow, flavor, freestyle, vocal presence, live performance, poetic value, body of work, industry impact, social impact, longevity, lyrics and battle skills, where he ranked himself as number # 5, ahead of MCs such as The GZA, and Tupac Shakur.
The band comprised Gilmour himself on guitars and vocals plus the two musicians on the album ( bass player Rick Wills and drummer Willie Wilson ) plus David Gilmour's brother Mark on rhythm guitar and Ian McLagan on keyboards and performed " Mihalis ", " There's No Way Out of Here ", " So Far Away ", " No Way ", and " I Can't Breathe Anymore ".
Lawrie Sanchez stated, " There's no reason why Bouba can't get himself up to being one of the best centre midfield players in the Premiership and that's where I see his long-term position.
( There's a wealth of quiet reserve and self-knowledge, touched by that form of self-mockery which appears as under-statement, in the way he will describe himself as being a ' dominant personality ')"
Its advertising slogan, which he coined himself, was " There's a Reason.
", and " dead man " that Dylan is addressing is himself, admitting his moral fallibility and mocking his own appearance " Satan's got you by the heel / There's a bird's nest in your hair.
There's only one course of action open to the brave little hero — read the spell again and spirit himself into the underworld to save his rotund group of pals!
Mark's catchphrase is that " There's no credit in being jolly " under benign circumstances and so he constantly urges himself to find a more challenging set of circumstances in order to test his good spirits.

himself and fine
Mr. White admires him profoundly and leaves no doubt that he is a Democrat himself who expects Mr. Kennedy to be a fine President.
It was determined that Powers had followed orders, had not divulged any critical information to the Soviets, and had conducted himself “ as a fine young man under dangerous circumstances .”
For several years after his marriage Morris was absorbed in two connected occupations: the building and decoration of a house for himself and Jane, and the foundation of a firm of decorators who were also artists, with the view of reinstating decoration, down to its smallest details, as one of the fine arts.
He began proving himself to be afine dramatic actor ,” having the range to act in numerous dramatic and comedy roles.
This resulted in the Director's Guild passing new legislation, known as ' the Clint Eastwood Rule ' in which they reserved the right to impose a major fine on a producer for discharging a director and replacing that director with himself.
He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.
As Advani himself acknowledged, rarely do two political leaders share such a bond, a working relationship that allows them both to thrive and grow without disturbing the fine balance of that bond.
In 1547, he built himself a fine house in Arezzo ( now a museum honouring him ), and laboured to decorate its walls and vaults with paintings.
The effect of a fine is lessened if the money to pay the fine is raised by contributions by the offender's associates, or if his family rather than himself go short to save back the lost money.
The royal clerks and many other clergy paid the fines, and in March, the southern clergy met again, and after a long debate, Winchelsey instructed each clerk to decide for himself whether or not to pay the fine.
Other works include two other concerti for violin and orchestra, No. 2 in D minor and No. 3 in D minor ( which Bruch himself regarded as at least as fine as the famous first ); and a Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra.
**" How womanly it is for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, and to arrange his hair at the mirror, shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them !... For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane.
Remember, therefore, all the fine things that your jurists and statesmen have said and written about the great palladium of British liberty and so forth: remember how the learned Sir William Blackstone hath delivered himself on this point ;— how that ' the founders of the English laws have with excellent forecast contrived that the truth of every accusation, whether preferred in the shape of indictment, information, or appeal, should be confirmed by the unanimous suffrage of twelve of his ( the accused person's ) equals and neighbours, indifferently chosen, and superior to all suspicion.
The fine gentleman of the play, drinking his mistress's health in Nantes brandy from six in the morning to the time he waddled upon the stage in the evening, had toasted himself up to such a pitch of vigour, I confess I once gave Amanda for gone.
He reveals himself as a master of historical interpretation in La Prudencia de la mujer ; his sympathetic, malicious wit finds dramatic expression in El Vergonzoso en palacio and Don Gil de las calzas verdes, and the fine divination of feminine character in Averígüelo, Vargas and La Villana de Vallecas ( The peasant woman of Vallecas ) is incomparable.
He was destitute of everything except fine apparel, and he had actually taken the extreme step of offering himself as a cadet in the service of the East India Company ; but, being dissuaded by the enrolling officer, who lent him a guinea and advised him to seek for other employment, and happening to meet with a festive acquaintance, he sought recreation at the Tottenham Theatre ( afterward the Prince of Wales's ) where Madame Vestris was acting.
Ottokar, having been compelled to pay a fine, again ranged himself among Philip's partisans and still later was among the supporters of the young king, Frederick II.
He had to strike a fine balance between appealing to Scandinavian ethnic pride on the one hand and showing himself a true American on the other ; between the appearance of treachery against Washburn and maintaining an honest impression.
They also offer a fine insight into the Emperor himself.
Cheryl Sutherland, in a fine, close reading of several poems, evokes the volume ’ s core: “ he finds precision satisfying so the task he has taken upon himself is to release the petrified voices of those who have lacked the vocabulary ; he fashions a frieze from their silence ” ( Sutherland, np ).
Franck's new church possessed a fine new organ ( 1846 ) by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who had been making a name for himself as an artistically gifted and mechanically innovative creator of magnificent new instruments.
As Advani himself acknowledged, rarely do two political leaders share such a bond, a working relationship that allows them both to thrive and grow without disturbing the fine balance of that bond.

himself and line
Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.
In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.
Villeroi, posting himself near Offus, watched anxiously the redcoats ' advance, mindful of the counsel he had received on 6 May from Louis XIV – " Have particular care to that part of the line which will endure the first shock of the English troops.
Once he had established himself as sole ruler of the Roman state in 30 BC, Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son Augustus inaugurated a strategy of advancing the empire's southeastern European border to the line of the Danube from the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and Macedonia.
Banquo, skeptical of the witches, challenges them to predict his own future, and they foretell that Banquo will never himself take the throne, but will beget a line of kings.
This apparition is also deeply unsettling to Macbeth, who not only wants the throne for himself, but also desires to father a line of kings.
Although Cantor himself defined the set in a general, abstract way, the most common modern construction is the Cantor ternary set, built by removing the middle thirds of a line segment.
Gloria Swanson immortalized DeMille with the oft-repeated line, " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up " in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, wherein DeMille played himself.
Duck Hunt, the dog jumps out from the grass as a distraction to players as they try to shoot ducks, thus putting himself in the line of fire and enabling a player to inadvertently shoot him.
The author of the Book of Ezekiel shows himself as Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, 1: 3 born into a priesthood ( Kohen ) lineage of the patrilineal line of Ithamar, and resident of Anathoth.
His plans for a new life as a bachelor are complicated when he is obliged to take in his father, a retired detective from the Seattle Police Department, Martin ( Mahoney ), who is unable to live by himself after being shot in the line of duty during a robbery.
Many ancient critics also rejected Theogony ( e. g. Pausanias 9. 31. 3 ) but that seems rather perverse since Hesiod mentions himself by name in that poem ( line 22 ).
Kasparov with black chose the Berlin Defence instead of his usual Sicilian and Polgár proceeded with a line which Kasparov has used himself.
In her 2002 victory over Kasparov, she deliberately chose a line Kasparov used against Vladimir Kramnik, employing the strategy of forcing the opponent to " play against himself ".
He saw himself as doing Allah's bidding, yet he was inquisitive enough to explore new ideas about religion, intelligent enough to understand that Hindus were in the majority and grand enough in his pretensions not to need to obey every line of the Qur ' an.
' At which Peggy snapped, ' Come on, dearie, it's only a gesture, not a recipe ,' a line surely worthy of Joe himself, though indicative of the contempt in which Ramsey held the Orton family.
Conrad, who was now the nearest kinsman to Baldwin V in the male line, and had already proved himself a capable military leader, then married Isabella, but Guy refused to concede the crown.
Advocates of this line hoped that the prince could be persuaded to distance himself from the right wing and to adopt leftist policies.
( Cleese himself parodied this line in a 1986 BBC advert defending the Television Licence Fee: " What has the BBC ever given us?
Marvin, who had selected Boorman himself for the director's slot, had a central role in the film's development, plot line, and staging.
When Banquo asks of his own fortunes, the witches inform him that he will father a line of kings, though he himself will not be one.
In his introduction to Mishneh Torah Maimonides provides a generation by generation account of the direct line of all those who transmitted this tradition beginning with Moses himself up until the Mishnaic era.
Heremon slew his brother shortly after their invasion, took the throne for himself, and fathered a line of kings of Ireland that include Malachi II, and King Niall of the Nine Hostages.
The Liber Pontificalis also presents a list that makes Linus the second in the line of bishops of Rome, after Peter ; but at the same time it states that Peter ordained two bishops, Linus and Cletus, for the priestly service of the community, devoting himself instead to prayer and preaching, and that it was to Clement that he entrusted the Church as a whole, appointing him as his successor.
On the death of Clement VI, after each cardinal had bound himself to a particular line of policy should he be elected, Aubert was chosen at a papal conclave on 18 December 1352, taking the name of Innocent VI.

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