Flip Quotes

• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

  Ben Savage

  Nice, Lunch, Santa

  "Paging Your Inner-Tween: We're Chatting With Ben Savage (AKA Cory Matthews!)". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

  Noel Gallagher

  Voice, People, Musician

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• I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

  Adele

  Drama, Bits, Bad Things

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• Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Inspiration, Creative

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• Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

  Arnold Rothstein

  Air, Flipping A Coin, Coins

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• I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.

  Evel Knievel

  Kids, Thinking, Fantastic

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• I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Believe, Agony, Joy

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• I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Couple, Years, Class

  "“Undercover Brother”: Neil Patrick Harris Interview". "Hollywood.com" Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.

  Hilary Rosen

  Growth, Enforcement, Sides

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• Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

  Jennifer Garner

  Two Sides, Trying, Kind

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• I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Kids, Thinking, Emotion

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• With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

  Josh Marshall

  Numbers, Ties, Trying

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• Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

  Alex D. Linz

  Running, Fun, Home

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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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• If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

  Joe Mantegna

  Believe, Two Sides, Ifs

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• I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

  Parker Posey

  Order, People, Agents

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• You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Teacher, Character, Imagination

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• I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Thinking, League

  Group interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

  Richard Burr

  Reality, Light, Reliability

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• Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

  Bobby Darin

  Shoes, Ashes, Boots

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• Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Jobs, Want

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Eye, Play, Ears

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• Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

  Matt Groening

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 14 Feb. 1991

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• I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

  Bobby Darin

  Thinking, Comedian, Wilson

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