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I don’t expect to get 218 on the first blush. What we present, there’s gonna be some gnashing of teeth, every dollar up here has an advocate. – South Carolina	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You see a lot of mischief online in ways that torment and exploit the privacy of women, girls and minorities... [ and yet ] we're gnashing our teeth when people are using online tools to protect themselves, i'm not saying that this is the way to do it... but when you have no other alternative, when you don't have accountability, people take self-protective measures into their own hands. – Danielle Citron	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We were trying to make it even before the heart attack happened, we were getting close, then the heart attack happened and pushed us back like a year or something. But after the heart attack, the movie just became informed by it, because they told me,' Hey, you got a 20 % chance of living tonight' -- which is like' You've got an 80 % chance of dying, motherf-cker.' And so all I could think about was, like,' Oh, s ---, this is the end.' And I wasn't upset, I wasn't wailing and gnashing teeth. I was like,' You know what ? I had a really good run, and I'm only 47, and that part sucks, but I can't complain.'. – Kevin Smith	Found on CNN 4 years ago
All these people who are wailing and gnashing of teeth know that there are two ways of doing what they want to do, one, is to change the government and the other is to change the law. If they do either of those that will then have an effect. – Jacob Rees-Mogg	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors. – Jeff Zurschmeide	added by anonymous 13 years ago

I don’t expect to get 218 on the first blush. What we present, there’s gonna be some gnashing of teeth, every dollar up here has an advocate.

– South Carolina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You see a lot of mischief online in ways that torment and exploit the privacy of women, girls and minorities... [ and yet ] we're gnashing our teeth when people are using online tools to protect themselves, i'm not saying that this is the way to do it... but when you have no other alternative, when you don't have accountability, people take self-protective measures into their own hands.

– Danielle Citron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were trying to make it even before the heart attack happened, we were getting close, then the heart attack happened and pushed us back like a year or something. But after the heart attack, the movie just became informed by it, because they told me,' Hey, you got a 20 % chance of living tonight' -- which is like' You've got an 80 % chance of dying, motherf-cker.' And so all I could think about was, like,' Oh, s ---, this is the end.' And I wasn't upset, I wasn't wailing and gnashing teeth. I was like,' You know what ? I had a really good run, and I'm only 47, and that part sucks, but I can't complain.'.

– Kevin Smith

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All these people who are wailing and gnashing of teeth know that there are two ways of doing what they want to do, one, is to change the government and the other is to change the law. If they do either of those that will then have an effect.

– Jacob Rees-Mogg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors.

– Jeff Zurschmeide

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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