I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.
Rod Lurie
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope
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The murder of Robert Krentz - whose family had been ranching in Arizona since 1907 - by illegal alien drug dealers was the final straw for many Arizonans. But there are dozens and dozens of other citizens of our state who had been murdered by illegal aliens. Currently 95 illegal aliens are in Maricopa County jail for murder.
Russell Pearce
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An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
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If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.
Francis Collins
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Straw purchasing is illegal.
Jason Chaffetz
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I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.
Zac Posen
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Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Brenda Holloway
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry
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Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
Bradley Chicho
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The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
Jack Dee
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The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'
William Safire
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
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I was the governor that drew a tough, tough straw. I was governor during the worst recession since the 1930s, and I had to cut $5 billion from the state budget.
Tim Kaine
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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While some of the critics are voicing legitimate concerns about the merits of a system of academic benchmarks, Common Core is frequently a straw man for the frustrations conservatives have with the federal government.
Sonny Perdue
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There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
Charles Edward Montague
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