Checking Out Quotes

• Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

  Brooke Burke

  Stars, Dark, Would Be

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• Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.

  John Murray

  Race, Order, Solitude

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• I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

  Harald Zwart

  Art, Hype, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Weather, Safe, Ifs

  "Blinded by the Light". Song by Bruce Springsteen, February 1973.

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• With all tools at my disposal, I'm 100% into chasing tone and checking out new equipment and "geeking" out during sound check by taking too much time.

  John Petrucci

  Sound, Tools, Too Much

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• There was actually some serious time in front of the mirror, checking yourself out, checking out your shirt, checking out your pants.Combing that hair. Really putting some thought and effort behind it and it's astounding how terrible I used to make myself look. Still to this day I don't really know how to dress myself.

  Rob Huebel

  Mirrors, Hair, Effort

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I'm at that age where I notice friends checking out my face and wondering, Has she been Botoxed? There's a new map there people that are trying to read. I think if I did get any kind of enhancement I would be very public about it. I don't want people wondering - I want them to know.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, People, Age

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• Maybe I’m just tired. (Geary) People only say that when they’re not really willing to deal with the issue at hand. It’s like when you ask a guy what he’s thinking and he says ‘nothing’ but in reality you know he’s checking out another woman and he doesn’t want you to give him grief over it. It’s Thia’s theory. (Tory) I think you need to stay away from her before she corrupts you. (Geary) Nah, it’s too much fun. She has the most misguided views on everything. But I think what I just said is one of the few lucid thoughts she’s ever managed. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Grief, Tired

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• Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

  Hugh Laurie

  Makeup, Games, People

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• I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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• I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.

  Dave Matthews

  Wall, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Here's what we [Americans] need: a 30 second you tube video of some guy at a party constantly checking out everyone else at the party, while he pretends to be speaking to the other person. We're the other person. The guy are the politicians. And the distraction is the corruption: We need a Congress that can afford to talk to us. For at least one drink or so.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Party, Guy, Needs

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• I'm kind of a social person and I enjoy corresponding with people and checking out their Facebook pages. And it really doesn't take much time. Ten minutes in the morning, 10 minutes at night and a little bit during the day. It's just something I really enjoy.

  Chris Frantz

  Morning, Night, People

  "Rockers Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth Talk Marriage". Interview with John Clarke, www.rollingstone.com. July 4, 2013.

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• Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

  Jose Padilha

  Objectivity, People, Principles

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• I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

  Conor Oberst

  Real, People, Listening

  "The Return Of Bright Eyes : A Conversation With Conor Oberst". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.

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• When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

  Liz Phair

  Beauty, People, Musical

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• Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, News, Honest

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• I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Habit, Youtube, Horrible

  "Rufus Wainwright's Got A Full Plate" by J.D. Considine, www.theglobeandmail.com. Apr 17, 2012.

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• Vee said," I'm trying to read the title he's holding…hang on…How to Be a Stalker." "He is not checking out a book with that title." But I wasn't so sure. "It's either that of How to Radiate Sexy Without Trying.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Sexy, Book, Trying

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

  Kevin Hearne

  Want, Littles, Buffets

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.412, Del Rey

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• I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates

  Lisa Kleypas

  Good Day, Men, Views

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.71, St. Martin's Press

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• When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.

  Ice Cube

  People, Logos, Should

  "Chillin' with Cube". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2000.

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