Get Away Quotes - Page 28

• I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.

  Douglas Massey

  Government, Want, Dichotomy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Believe, Soul, Literature

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

  Laurie Anderson

  Country, Views, Order

  Interview with A.M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.

  Kristina Schroder

  Role Models, Example, Roles

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• If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.

  Will Sheff

  Rocks, Ideas, Rock Music

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. May 1, 2007.

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• I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Son, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

  Jon Stewart

  Dream, Joy, Guarantees

  "The Daily Show", March 19, 2009.

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• I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

  Billy Corgan

  Use, Kind, Salvation

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• When you are 18, 19 or 20 you can get away with more, but as you get into your twenties you realise that it is harder and harder to lose what you put on. Look at Ricky Hatton. That isn't good for you and so you know not to come back overweight or out of shape. Why? Because you'll get stick from fellow players and you'll struggle.

  Colin Kazim-Richards

  Struggle, Player, Sticks

  "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com.

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• In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.

  Howard Gordon

  Real, Character, Tv Shows

  Source: deadline.com

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• Never run from one such as me, female. You will no’ get away - and we like it.

  Kresley Cole

  Running, Female

  Kresley Cole (2015). “A Hunger Like No Other”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Looks, Crowds

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• Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

  Henry Moore

  Mean, Emotional, Interpretation

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

  Hugh Prather

  Taken, Procrastination, Maturity

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.81, Conari Press

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• In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

  Robert Reich

  Lying, Technology, Routine

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• There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Long, People

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• The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail.

  Joe Gores

  Law, Jail, I Can

  Joe Gores (2009). “Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon”, p.103, Vintage

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• You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Somewhere Else

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• There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill with impunity, where they can turn up at a place, shoot seven people - really at point-blank fashions - and then get away with it and be, in fact, promoted. And then there is the actual responsibility, the governmental responsibility. My aunt's government forbade us, initially, from filing a police report - which is every Pakistani citizen's right under the law.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Fashion, Responsibility, Aunt

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• You can't get away, I can't fill my car up at a gas station without Coors Light, Bud Light, Corona, whatever, it's just the way it is.

  Kirk Windstein

  Light, Car, Gas Stations

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• It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

  Eric Stoltz

  Depressing, Real, War

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• I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Giving, Chance

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

  Dorothy Parker

  Honesty, Mean, Where You Are

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• We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Mean, Support

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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• Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

  Phil Crosby

  Hard Work, Thinking, Quality

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