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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• But don’t let them talk you into anything you don’t feel comfortable with.” “They’re my friends.” “So what?” He shrugged. “If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?” “Why would they walk off a cliff?” I asked in alarm. “Is someone having problems at home?

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Home, Alarms, Problem

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.15, Macmillan

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• In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Night, Office, Political

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• I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

  Barack Obama

  Change, People, Care

  "House Democrats, Obama Retreat To Williamsburg". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 6, 2009.

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• You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Car, Like You, Screenwriting

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• There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

  Johnny Vegas

  Gay, Fans, Stuff

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• The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

  Michael Moore

  Trying, Rich, Break

  "An Open Letter to President Obama" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

  Dennis Rodman

  Gun, Knives, Car

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• The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.

  Idris Elba

  Jumping, Feelings, Action

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• Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Sound, Might

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• When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

  Chaka Khan

  Horse, Twenties, Riding

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• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Lying, Thinking, Air

  Hansard 30 July 1934, col. 2339

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• And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films

  Irene Dunne

  Thinking, White, Dover

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• I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Spiritual, Jumping, Wings

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• I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

  Jim Otto

  Thinking, Guy, Rays

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• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  Samuel Beckett

  Believe, Sea, Atheism

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.160, Grove Press

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• Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should Have, Sea, Knives

  "The Life of Mahatma Gandhi". Book by Louis Fischer, 1950.

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• Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

  George Galloway

  Blair, Bottom, Remembered

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• A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Peace, War

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

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• People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, Done, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Law, Cities

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Caroline Adams Miller "Bright Words for Dark Days: Meditations for Women Who Get the Blues" (p. 10), 1994.

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• Image of rugged cliffs
  And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
  Love itself shall slumber on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Gone Love, Slumber

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• The sun is a huntress young,
  The sun is a red, red joy,
  The sun is an Indian girl,
  Of the tribe of the Illinois.
  The sun is a smouldering fire,
  That creeps through the high gray plain,
  And leaves not a bush of cloud
  To blossom with flowers of rain.
  The sun is a wounded deer,
  That treads pale grass in the skies,
  Shaking his golden horns,
  Flashing his baleful eyes.
  The sun is an eagle old,
  There in the windless west.
  Atop of the spirit-cliffs
  He builds him a crimson nest.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Girl, Rain, Flower

  Vachel Lindsay (1992). “The Congo and Other Poems”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

  Martin Sheen

  God, Mother, Believe

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• We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.

  Ivan Vladislavic

  Ice, Sea, Perception

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