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• Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Grease, Want, Rooms

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• a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like a Doctor who tells you you’re suffering from a “thingy,” except the doctor won’t tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

  John Connolly

  Home, Doctors, Suffering

  John Connolly (2009). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Maurice has been a revelation, on and off the field.

  Alexi Lalas

  Fields, Revelations, Has Beens

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• In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Apples, Firsts, Facts

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• Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Things In Life, Interesting

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.140, Spectra

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• We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?

  Chris Abani

  Hero, Thinking, Hunting

  Chris Abani (2014). “The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel”, p.91, Penguin

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• If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

  James Redfield

  Doubt, Mind, Alertness

  James Redfield (2001). “The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Oh, no. I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view, that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. Um, you know, I think that there's a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can't simply say, oh, like, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay." It's like saying, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black."

  Michael Steele

  Morning, Gay, Makeup

  "Michael Steele, au revoir" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

  Dennis Prager

  Smart, Air, Gentleman

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• Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.

  Eddie Murphy

  Home, Wish, Technique

  Source: collider.com

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• The attitude in terms of how players work both on and off the field has a massive impact on us as coaches but also the performance and how the team does as well.

  Warren Gatland

  Attitude, Team, Player

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Role Models, Roles, Beckham

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• My goals have always been to inspire people to be the best they could be, on and off the field.

  Tyrone Willingham

  People, Goal, Inspire

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

  Louis Susman

  Sports, League, Prominent

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• If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Hands, Sides, Serious

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• I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Two, Years, Making Love

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• I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.

  Roger Federer

  Love, Sports, Blessed

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• I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

  David Zucker

  Love, Cameras, Adam

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Blow, Coquette

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

  Cam Newton

  Swagger, Fields, Type

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• Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team player who has only cared about winning. He has also been a fine example both on and off the field over his long tenure as a Yankee. It has been a real pleasure to manage him and play alongside him.

  Joe Girardi

  Team, Real, Player

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• You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 28, 2014

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• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Jobs, Book, People

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• Strange as it may sound, it is more difficult to maintain a faith walk when we begin to see our dreams come true. When hopes become realities it is easy to shift our faith onto the thing we have dreamed of and off of the One who was the source of our provision.

  Andy Stanley

  Faith, Christian, Dream

  Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.76, Multnomah

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• For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like "Blue Kentucky Girl," by Emmylou Harris, and "Off the Wall," by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's "Purple Rain" - it just can't be done!

  Connie Britton

  Birthday, Girl, Wall

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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