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You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

~Clint Eastwood

Topics: Against Confident Defensive Feel Going Hesitant Lot Then Things Working You

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As an offensive lineman, having spatial awareness is key: understanding where the quarterback is going to be and understanding what the defensive end might do depending on the play we're running.

~D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Topics: Awareness Defensive Depending End Going Having Key Might Offensive Play Quarterback Running Spatial Understanding Where

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When you're the guy inside of a character and you've lived with it for almost two years, you're always a bit defensive about the character, and you want to root for the character you're playing.

~Dan Amboyer

Topics: About Almost Always Bit Character Defensive Guy Inside Lived Playing Root Two Want Years You

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Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

~David D. Burns

Topics: Anxious Dealing Defensive Depressed Finding Get Hurting Most People Person Poorly Problem Rather Relative Saying Solve Surprisingly Than Truth Try Who

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Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.

~David E. Sanger

Topics: Administration American Being Defensive House Offensive Oversight Structure Traditional Trump White White House

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We don't like talking about race in the U.K. - it's a very sensitive subject. People get extremely defensive and run for the covers, but I believe we have to talk about it.

~David Harewood

Topics: About Believe Covers Defensive Extremely Get Like People Race Run Sensitive Subject Talk Talking Very I Believe

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A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Academic Been Country Defensive Education Higher Higher Education Many Preoccupation Response Scientists Social Submit Theory Traditional Years

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All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

~Derek Jarman

Topics: Because Defensive Homosexual Hopelessly Ideal Like Man Men Must Odd Purity Racial Sexuality Some Straight Turn Very Your

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I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Because Being Boring Dare Defensive Dependent Feel Feminist Find Love Man Much Thing Very Whole

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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

~Douglas Haig

Topics: Attack Dangerous Defensive Desire Enemy Fallacy Idea Inception Owes Price Standing Victory Waiting War Which Won

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