Surrounding Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Surrounding Quotes from famous persons: Lily Collins, Filipe Luis, Nikola Tesla, Dierks Bentley, Amy McGrath. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Surrounding Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I couldn't handle the pain and confusion surrounding my

I couldn’t handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad‘s divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.
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Speaking about Mourinho is always controversial, and there’s always some intrigue surrounding him. But he is an awesome coach who tries to take the maximum from each and every one of his players.
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
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I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation – and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy – is the kind of music I make.
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The allegations surrounding whether President Trump pressured the Ukrainian leader to investigate the family of his political rival is, if true, a disgraceful betrayal of the oath of office and demands immediate action by Congress.
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I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering – but they can’t be ugly. I think there’s so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won’t sell.
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The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
Maurice Jarre
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I have never indulged our society‘s misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
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At home, my parents were quite old, so the surrounding was of elder people. There was no noise. Reading books was encouraged; TV was not encouraged, so I was the geeky, studious type of girl.
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The outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action – or lack of action – before, during, and after the attack.
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We should relocate federal agencies throughout the United States, to provide an economic boost to the surrounding areas and make them feel more connected to their government.
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Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
Russel Honore
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As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you’re going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it’s seems like I’m looking out over a forest.
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American elections should be for Americans. And the idea that we would have foreign nation-states coming into the American electoral process, or the information surrounding an election, is really, really bad.
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This political climate today reminds me of what my father must have gone through in 1942, when the winds of war and fires of hate were surrounding him. We have a candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, using the same rhetoric that my father must have heard from elected officials.
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When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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I ate cottage cheese all the time growing up, but it wasn’t until I was in college that I became aware of the stigma surrounding it.
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We’re loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.
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I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
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I had tumors on both ovaries, and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues.
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Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.
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Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues surrounding their research with those who are concerned.
Shinya Yamanaka
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I don’t know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
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Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.
Ryan White
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When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when I got a little bit older it very much became a way of looking inward.
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All the difficulties surrounding the making of ‘Mars et Avril’ actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!
Martin Villeneuve
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My secret is just surrounding myself with people who are a lot funnier than me.
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I’m just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I’m thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.
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Japan‘s alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
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We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it’s talking about highways and it’s talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that’s surrounding me?
Katherine Boo
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And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.
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A lot of the fun of ‘Gravity Falls’ comes from the secrecy surrounding the plot. We want fans to be able to guess and speculate, to be surprised by twists and be engaged when they get things right.
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We’ve heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.
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I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
Richard Donner
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It is my conviction that becoming economically and socially vulnerable puts you at the mercy of people surrounding you. It is as if you no longer exist as a human being and are no longer worthy of respect.
Rula Ghani
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My understanding is that it’s quite difficult for actors in the theater to know anybody but actors in the theater. It’s the whole concept of the amniotic fluid surrounding one industry, holding people in place. I’ve never had a season ticket. I’m always a tourist.
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Police departments are always a reflection of the society that they serve. Is there such a thing as ‘police culture?’ Absolutely. Is that culture isolated form the surrounding society? Absolutely not.
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It is, because you’ve got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you’re like, ‘Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?’ That’s what I have to think of all the time.
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Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.
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In the dissection of the muscles, attention should be directed to the exact origin, insertion, and actions of each, and to its more important relations with surrounding parts.
Henry Gray
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Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.
John Edward
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The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
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The main difference is, in ‘Cold Case,’ the victim sometimes had been dead for decades – you didn’t have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. ‘SVU’ is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.
Danny Pino
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In the film ‘PK’, questions have been raised about the theatrics surrounding religion, but it is not limited to a particular faith. In the end, the film teaches us, every religion says love one another and trust one another.
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I often say now I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson‘s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
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The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.
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In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.
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Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
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I titled it ‘Alaska‘ because the song sort of represents everything that happened in my life surrounding a hiking trip I took for a month in Alaska.
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Immediately surrounding the tranquil eye is the most violent part of the hurricane: the eye wall. The most intense wind speeds at the surface are found there.
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I guess I’ve always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.
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We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the surrounding ones?
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Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don’t need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.
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Nothing is clear cut in the debate surrounding high-speed rail, but from its successes elsewhere we can be confident that it pays a great dividend to the society it serves.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that’s been taken away in the Western world.
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China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.
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Women are ‘expected‘ to have skinny waists yet still be voluptuous. People surrounding us tell us we need to eat but then look at us in disgust if we cross the invisible line of overeating.
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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I’m trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.
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I must learn to adapt, or else I’ll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.
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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
Gale Norton
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I don’t imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they’re pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.
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We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we’re doing and try not to think about the madness that’s surrounding it, and all the hype.
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We live by our values at Levo. We began by surrounding ourselves with passionate, values-driven people who had their intentions in the right place, and learned that like attracted like.
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
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It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread – the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
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The whole basis of conserving is not about nature – it is about people. If we don’t look after the people surrounding the place, and if they don’t have the value of preserving it in their pockets, then they are not going to preserve it.
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I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.
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Normally, the secrecy and lack of transparency surrounding the appointment of judges of the higher judiciary ensures that citizens come to know of these appointments only after the Presidential notification, announcing the appointments, is issued.
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In England, especially, mentally if you’re not strong it can eat you up. There’s the media, all the negativity surrounding footballers. If you’re not mentally strong, it can eat you.
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We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.
Diego Giacometti
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I worked on ‘Game Of Thrones‘ for six years, so I’m very well equipped to handle hype surrounding television shows.
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The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It’s strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
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So much of the bitterness that the term ‘McCarthyism’ evokes refers to the probe begun in New Jersey in the summer of 1953 – both in the laboratories of Fort Monmouth and in the surrounding communities of Red Bank and Belmar, where some of the best scientists and engineers in America worked.
David Oshinsky
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My parents were very protective of me. Hockley had some crime, so my mum didn’t want me out there, and my dad was the same. I would have to be in at a certain time, as there was a lot of violence surrounding our area.
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I didn’t really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.
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The language surrounding cancer is not language I’m particularly comfortable with.
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Family, to me, is about surrounding yourself with loved ones and having them by your side, no matter what happens.
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I became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.
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Our farmers and ranchers constantly evolve and adapt to the conditions surrounding them, and if provided better and faster connectivity, the development of new technologies on the farm will rival any other sector.
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I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.
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I have to say I love Dempsey’s Brew Pub & Restaurant. It’s gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese.
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Now, if you are like me – if you are like practically anybody in America – then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or… you know… all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger – or this week in San Bernardino by fear – and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.
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A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave – as he thinks at that moment – a trace on the earth.
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The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can’t stick our heads in the sand and say ‘it can’t happen to me.’
Brande Roderick
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For me, it’s about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It’s ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.
Chad Stahelski
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You put a car on the road which may be driving by the letter of the law, but compared to the surrounding road users, it’s acting very conservatively. This can lead to situations where the autonomous car is a bit of a fish out of water.
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When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.
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The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.
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Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Young women who come to Rise every weekend range from ages 15-19 years if they’re in school and 19-24 years if they’re out of school. These empowered young women talk about protecting themselves, their friends and communities and how they can educate people to help break the stigma surrounding AIDS.
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When I look back on my childhood, my fondest memories are those surrounding the dinner table.
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My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment – I agree with Nietzsche about this – a resentment about the surrounding social order. They have privileges, I don’t. Or, I have them and I can’t live up to them.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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For some of Britain‘s most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate. They assert ownership not only of the land but also of the social relationships surrounding it.
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While Ebola’s deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security.
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I have an interest in Native American artifacts, mainly Plains Indians from the 1840s to the 1900s, and I go in and out of that. I get really into it, and then I put it down, but it’s surrounding me.
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I think I feel my best – I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out – when I’m just surrounded with love, when I’m with my family and we’re all having a wonderful time together. There’s nothing greater than your family surrounding you.
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The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia’s hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.
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I’m surrounding myself with people who want to do what I want to do, which is be a football player.
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I’m drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
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Protecting our Great Lakes and conserving this resource for the next generation is critical both for surrounding communities and our planet as a whole.
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It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.
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The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they’re powerful, and they’ve completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.
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I feel like there haven‘t been a lot of stupid rumors surrounding my life.
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General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
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One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it – in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them – that’s huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
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The whole circus surrounding Ed Burke, I knew immediately from my days as a federal prosecutor, was very, very serious.
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I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that’s always hard to take.
Ricky Ponting
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I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, ‘Oh, I’m going to be one of the great voice-over artists.’
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As I detail in my new book: ‘Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,’ there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run ‘black sites‘ from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.
Jose Rodriguez
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Hospitals don’t have enough beds, staff shortages are being exacerbated by the uncertainty surrounding what Brexit means for EU nationals and our ability to access new cancer treatments is under threat.
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Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.
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Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I’d perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.
Gary McCord
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
Nate Powell
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The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
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The truth is, it was my Nanna and Grandad who helped me get over my mum’s death. Surrounding me with infinite, unquestioning love, they were classic kinship carers.