Band Aid Quotes

• At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

  John Green

  Letting Go, Hurt, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.15, Penguin

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• You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

  Michael Connelly

  Soul, Band, Ptsd

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Effort, Cost

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• My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.

  T. D. Jakes

  Mother, Band, Clean

  T. D. Jakes (2016). “Woman, Thou Art Healed and Whole: A 90 Day Devotional Journey”, p.18, Destiny Image Publishers

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• We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

  Allan Houston

  Talking, Band, Want

  "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Needs, Band

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• Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

  C.C. Hunter

  Band, Bullets, Thanks

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• The best way to break up with a girl is like I'm taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girl, Band, Way

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2010

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• Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Learning, Games, Band

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• Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Character, Self

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• You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Needs, Band, Stitches

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2000). “Cheaters”, p.222, Penguin

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• I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Laughter, Believe, Emotional

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• Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Band, World, Fixing

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

  Taylor Swift

  Sorry, Band, Bullets

  Song: Bad Blood

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• There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

  Sarah Kay

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Source: reason.com

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• Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Fighting, Cutting, Organization

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?" "Shut up, Garett." "Yes, ma'am.

  Cindy Gerard

  Band, Shut Up, Power Rangers

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• The first cut is the deepest.

  Rod Stewart

  Cutting, Firsts, Grey's Anatomy

  Song: The First Cut Is The Deepest, Album: A Night on the Town

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• For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Adventure, Past, Band

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Tea, Looks, Band

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• Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Children, Pain, Garden

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• It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

  Johnny Depp

  Rocks, Coyotes, Band

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them is like a speck of glass working itself deeper into your flesh.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Hurt, Glasses, People

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• I’ll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it’s time?” “I got it,” one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo remembered. She wore camo pants, a tank top that showed off her buff arms, and a red bandanna over her mop of dark hair. Except for the smiley-face Band-Aid on her chin, she looked like one of those female action heroes, like any second she was going to grab a machine gun and start mowing down evil aliens. “Cool,” Leo said. “I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Hero, Dark

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