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To keep one's head about him, to loosely quote Kipling, is perhaps Nadal's greatest strength.

Fantasy Football, "Where Self-Loathing Happens!" To loosely quote Herm Edwards, WE PLAY TO HATE THE GAME! Things aren't going to work out.

If we recognize the films they loosely quote from, or model themselves after, some of these composite pictures may prove disorienting to us because we recognize that Sherman has assimilated cinematic styles or genres that our categorically-minded sensibilities tell us conflict with our experiences of movies.

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Mr. Netanyahu loosely quoted Mark Twain, saying, "The reports about the demise of the special relationship aren't just premature; they're just flat wrong".

"They knew something was going on here," says Muldaur, loosely quoting Dylan's Ballad of a Thin Man, "but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones?" Bob Dylan and Joan Baez (and Muldaur) were minted as folk stars.

In "Gotta Go," a voice-over loosely quoting the author Mary Roach announces: "The way I see it, being dead is not so different than being on a cruise ship".

Approached by new arrivals wishing to stay overnight, organisers happily kitted each out with a brand-new donated tent (some marked with laminated yellow notes loosely quoting John Lennon in Chinese and English: "...not for a dreamer, but you are not alone"), a comfortable mattress, a sleeping bag, a soft pillow and a bottle of water.

When I ask her how she dealt, she loosely quotes Lady Gaga: Women have the potential to lose their creativity through their vagina.

"Culture is upstream of politics you can't change how people vote until you change their hearts and minds," said BigDawg cofounder Lisa Mei, loosely quoting the late conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart, who was famously obsessed with the liberal media.

When it comes to the topic of aging, Deneuve is known for saying (to quote loosely), "You choose either your face or your fanny".

Then things get weird: Professor Norman's theories turn out to be right, and Lucy is able to perceive such things, she says (and I quote Lucy loosely), as the stuff of her own metabolism, the blood in her veins, every memory (including those dredged up from infancy), the force of gravity, the spinning of the globe.

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