Get Away Quotes - Page 21

• You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Cells, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Thinking, Healthy, Littles

  Interview with Amy Kaufman, www.thewrap.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.

  Roseanne Barr

  True Things, Paid

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fighting, People, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

  Alessandra Stanley

  Writing, Black, Should

  "Shonda Rhimes strikes back against 'angry black woman' label" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2014.

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• The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits) while socializing its  costs (like pollution).

  Steve Kangas

  Mean, Entrepreneur, Cost

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• Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Vegas, Las Vegas

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• I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do.

  Hank Aaron

  Jobs, Athlete, White

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• Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

  Ada Leverson

  Husband, Passion, Home

  Ada Leverson (2005). “Love at Second Sight”, p.143, 1st World Publishing

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• Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  May, Want, Youth

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• I've loved Kevin McDonald's movies for a while and it was an amazing experience because he really wanted to do something different. It was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done, to wake up every single day and know that you're going to be freezing cold and wet, every single day, 10 times a day, and there's no getting away from it.

  Channing Tatum

  Mcdonalds, Different, Wake Up

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My blessing is I'm blessed with good health. If I weren't feeling good or if I didn't have the energy, then it's not that much fun. But this way, you can get away with murder because you're going to be 90 in January.

  Betty White

  Fun, Blessed, Blessing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

  Bob Dylan

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

  Georg Solti

  Past, Wanted, Connected

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• When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

  Julie Newmar

  Murder, Looking Good, Young

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• If your hair is done properly you can get away with anything

  Iris Apfel

  Hair, Done, Shoes And Fashion

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• If you were God’s children you would loathe the very thought of the world’s evil joys, and your question would not be, “How far may we be like the world?” but your one cry would be, “How far can we get away from the world? How much can we come out from it?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Joy

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

  George Eliot

  Failure, Air, People

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.322, George Eliot

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• The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving Money, Government, People

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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• City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Heart, Games

  Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.1098, Feltrinelli Editore

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• I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

  Shirley Temple

  Close Family

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• A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

  Jerry Brown

  White, House, Criminals

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• The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!

  Jerry Brown

  War, Ties, Agency

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• I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.

  Jessica Alba

  Girlfriend, Vacation, Shopping

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