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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

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All cats are grey in the dark.

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After dark all cats are leopards.

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Even the devastating fallout from Katrina won't be enough to keep them from coming back, some artists promise. After all, the city's air of defiant bravado in the face of impending disaster has always been part of its allure. The culture survives, ... It's survived slavery. It's survived everything so far. I don't think you can stop the dance. I don't think you can drown the dance. We dance at funerals, and now we have to dance at our own funeral.

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That (Super Bowl) team was a really tight-knit team. We had characters. We had Hollywood. We had bravado, we had it all. That was our time then. This is our time now. Our time now is what it is. Winning brings about a better situation. It's just as tight. But it's still all about winning.

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It all came out as kind of a joke when someone told me, 'You won't have a ship in this port for six months. My response, with a lot of bravado, was we'll be back at 70 percent within six months.

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I mean, we are talking about one of the most celebrated and twisted characters of Western tradition. It gives you a sense of a do-or-die bravado.

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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.

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Clearly this was Dick Morris' day in the sun. And if he would have been careful and obviously not been quite as bravado to his pillow mate, the reality is he could have had a very lucrative career in the future.

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It was teenage bravado, I thought I was faster than the snake.

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Behind the GOP's bravado, there are a lot GOP operatives quaking in their boots.

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Also Yoda 's scenes with the Emperor are so show stealing, especially when he Force flings Palpatine head over heels, ... I laughed aloud when Obi-Wan drops in to confront Grievous and his droids on Utapau . With a smirk, completely unbothered by being massively outnumbered he quips, 'Hello there.' Such cocky bravado from a Jedi , really

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For all the bravado, he's a sensitive soul and a likeable guy and when he is having a hard time, he can sometimes feel it and I do talk to him.

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There was no robust auction that I could see. It's been a bizarre process . . . For all the effort and bravado, it's amusing.

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I think people are full of bravado out there. There's no fear.

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I'm surprised that the market bounced back so quickly, I thought there might have been a little more pain before it moved back up. But it looks like (Tuesday) was transitory. There's no fear investors are still full of bravado. The perception is you just keep on buying the dips because they always come back.

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The essential thing about Bob Hope was he wasn't a winner, but he had a bravado, and he was willing to say now and again he was scared.

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Gestures, lines, soft loops and gentle slashed dance around, in and out of the painted surfaces with delightful assurance and bravado.

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You can understand the frustration, but all it does is hasten the day of the last paycheck. It's more bravado at this point than it is rational thought.

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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

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The interesting thing about him is that Dr. Mac, for all of the bravado about wanting to hold the line on dollars, became the first guy to pay a million dollars to somebody (Ryan). ... Fast-forward a couple of years, and people have somehow forgotten that this guy crossed a barrier that hadn't been crossed and treated Nolan great. I don't know all that went on between Nolan and Mac. OK, maybe it's probably not the bright spot, but it certainly shouldn't be how he's remembered.

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We can do better than the false bravado of 'bring 'em on' aa remember that We can do better than the illusion of 'mission accomplished,'

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Bush has cruised through life fueled by booze, drugs and bravado. Heaas proud to be an underachiever and he rests comfortably on the laurels of his father. Heaas failed at every venture heaas ever undertaken. And every mess heaas created has been cleaned up for himaarrests for drunk driving, cocaine, AWOL from the National Guard and numerous bad business deals. He is a self-made disaster. Yet, he was handed the keys to the kingdomaTWICEFool me once, shame on youa.Fool me twiceaa.God help us all.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

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The governor has a great working relationships with senators from both parties. He regrets that comments he made in a recent interview were interpreted as bravado. The governor's intent is to always focus on policy proposals and options rather than personalities.

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