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I was very happy playing sports until I was 18, and then there were a couple of years where I really didn`t know what I wanted to do. I saw some theatre in Oklahoma and made a decision to learn about acting. It wasn`t really with an eye on making films or even making a living; it was really about trying to focus on something that had the potential of taking the place of sport in terms of something to penetrate.

- Ed Harris

And it`s a question of how far we`re willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.

- Taylor Hackford

No one can penetrate me. They only see what`s in their own fancy, always.

- Ray Davies

On an earthen dam, if you don`t do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

- Michael Wong

As our poll shows, and legal scholars agree, the awesome power of government to penetrate citizens` most private communications must not be held in one set of hands.

- Michael Greco

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

- Edward Hall

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

- Alan Feldman

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

- Alex Ratelle

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

- Alf Warkentin

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

- Alice Gilborn

A child`s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

- Allen Dulles

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

- Amanya Mushega

We stopped moving the ball (in Games 3 and 4) and it`s hard to penetrate and find the room to get to the hole when you are just standing. I think we moved the ball much better in 1 and 2.

- Andy McNabb

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one`s own being

- Carl Gustav Jung