Need To Get Away Quotes

• Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

  Jay Kay

  Guy, Needs, Kind

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• But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

  Mike Figgis

  Movie, Strong, Desire

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• I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

  Alan Hansen

  Football, Philosophy, Thinking

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• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?

  Tana French

  Needs, Too Much, Get Away

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2008.

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• Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

  Judd Apatow

  Needs, Sometimes, Week

  "Oscars Q&A: Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann". "Deadline" Interview, deadline.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.

  Grimes

  Cute, Bangs, Dresses

  "Grimes: 'Genesis'". Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2012.

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• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

  Andy Rooney

  Distance, Silence, Desire

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• Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.

  Robert Fulghum

  Beach, Learning, Thinking

  Robert Fulghum (1997). “Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing that Inspired My Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Important, Special

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

  Lou Holtz

  Thinking, Games, Needs

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• I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Thinking, Needs, Nuclear

  "North Korea’s Latest Alarming Nuclear Test Is Part of Its Apocalyptic “Final Victory” Strategy" by Isaac Chotiner, www.slate.com. January 6, 2016.

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