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During the scene of the Yule Ball, the ground was very slippery and I was wearing high heels and I slipped but good thing I grabbed onto Robert so I didn`t fall and good thing the cameras weren`t where we were yet. Oh, that was so embarrassing!

- Katie Leung

Like everyone we expected the track to dry out a lot faster than it did. Instead the track was incredibly slow to dry out. It was amazing how slippery the circuit was, and I can`t remember seeing a race like that. We came straight back in and that enabled us to score some points. The team did a great job but we just got one decision wrong.

- Ralf Schumacher

This type of legislation, which leaves consumers with no choices of coverage and higher rates, would have sent Colorado back down the slippery slope of no-fault auto insurance.

- Kelly Campbell

Today, I had trouble because it was slippery and dangerous,

- Jan Ullrich

I`ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

- Michael Stipe

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.

- Greg Maddux

She`s hard to box out, she`s slippery.

- Natalie Williams

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

- Michelle Shocked

We had about 17 inches with that last big storm we had out here, but that was light, fluffy snow. This one is a lot harder (to shovel), and it`s really icy underneath. It`s really slippery.

- David Murphy

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure`s source.

- Billy Collins

once you sell more trust units then we`re on the slippery slope downward.

- Al Rosen
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He`s in it for Don King and that`s understandable because that`s why people go into business. He`s just kind of slippery about it.

- Dick Schaap

The challenging part is that it had a metal roof. It was pretty steep, and it tends to get a little slippery.

- Dave Scott

It really opens up a slippery slope, ... It opens them (the Bush administration) up for attack where they don`t need to be attacked.

- David Sheldon

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we`re getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

- Barbara Lee

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

- Abel Stevens

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

- Ahmet Necdet Sezner

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.

- Alan Ladwig

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

- Alan Sandals

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

- Albanian Proverb

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

- Alberto Adrianzen

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

- Allison Sharp

The big thing is it`s dangerous. There are not enough officials for three at each game and maybe not even two. You need three referee`s to control a physical game between rivals. And if the fields are slippery that could be even more dangerous.

- Arthur Adler

We are taking risks every day on twisty and slippery final sections.

- Ashney Singh