Get Away Quotes - Page 32

• There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.

  Tod Goldberg

  Spring, Native American, Airports

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general mayhem, adultery, screwing over the government, basic intimidation and thuggery, etc.). It's a very American ideal - the freedom to break the law.

  Tod Goldberg

  Government, Law, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

  Adam Young

  Nice, Home, Doors

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• You don't normally think of Los Angeles as a place to go to get away.

  Brooke Fraser

  Thinking, Places To Go, Los Angeles

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• I will reveal to the American people over and over and over again the Clinton way, say what you have to say to get elected, lie as long as you can get away with it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Lying, Long, People

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

  Joel Stein

  Book, Pages, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

  Dan Chaon

  Character, Thinking, Issues

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

  Johnny Depp

  Cartoon, Action, Parameters

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Government, University Students, Addiction

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• There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.

  Jonathan E. Steinberg

  Reality, Civilization, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.

  Brandon Spikes

  Football, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

  Justin Cole

  Player, College, Athletic

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Racist, Calling

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Responsibility, Challenges, Levels

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• When Iran continues to get away with bad behavior, what do our allies who are Iran's enemies think about us? It is why we cannot stand by while Russia allies itself with Iran. You can't outsource American leadership to Russia. Russia isn't on our side. They're on their side and Iran's side.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Russia, Iran

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

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• You don't want to be mean to people, but some people are real assholes. And you can't say that on TV - or, you can, but probably, as a celebrity, I can't get away with it. Trust me. Unless you're somebody who can say anything they want, I guess, like Donald Trump.

  Jackee Harry

  Real, Mean, People

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

  Beck

  Trying, Would Be, Easy

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Piano, Trying

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.

  John Amaechi

  Sports, Home, Athlete

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover.

  Joe Arpaio

  People, Today, Shots

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.

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• Trump says things others so desperately want to say to people that work, to people wherever they encounter them. Trump says it. Trump carries a banner of this stuff for people. He says and acts in ways that they do in private, but can't get away with in public. But Trump is. It makes him a hero to these people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hero, People, Encounters

  "This Ad Won’t Hurt Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 10, 2016.

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• You can get away with anything as long as it works.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Long

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

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• If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one part. You're not dealing with anything in real time, you're constantly moving and constantly going. You're drinking to get away from things, things your dealing with. My wife might be calling me trying to argue and I don't wanna deal with it so I just go drink and by the time we talk again I'm so drunk I just don't care. I'll just deal with it however.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Zero, Real, Drinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that certain people weren't held accountable. When we move to make corrupt mayors or officers answer to the courts, people always immediately say that we are repressive. But should we allow these people to continue to get away with it?

  Paul Kagame

  Moving, People, Answers

  "'We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential'". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

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