Get Away Quotes - Page 36

• She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Skins

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• I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anything goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disuise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Smart, Blessing

  Kirsten Miller (2007). “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City”, Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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• Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

  Stevie Nicks

  Love You, Voice, Sound

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• You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they’ve been insulted. (Mark) Yeah, that’s a twofer there. You get away with it and then they’re twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Mistake, Stupid

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• The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There’d be riots in the streets about the people we’re killing. And yet because it’s Obama, and he’s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

  Penn Jillette

  Reading, Differences, Numbers

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• Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

  Richard Rorty

  Truth Is

  "Richard Rorty (1931 - 2007)". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. June 16, 2007.

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• But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Legs, Remember

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

  Sue Grafton

  Hate, Fall, Men

  Sue Grafton (2011). “F is for Fugitive”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.

  Joan Blondell

  Dog, Hate, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

  Louise Brooks

  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Waiting, Position

  "Why it's OK not to like modern art". The Times, May 08, 2003.

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• In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

  David J. C. MacKay

  Future, Numbers, People

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• My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass'. I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that.

  Jamie Foxx

  Inspirational, Basketball, Stars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

  Stephan Pastis

  Able, Add, Ends

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• We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle & misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. The law of life. No sense in battling against it.

  R.K. Narayan

  Mother, Hurt, Loneliness

  R. K. Narayan (2000). “Memories of Malgudi”, p.274, Penguin Books India

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• Too many whites are getting away with drug use... Too many whites are getting away with drug sales... The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Rivers, Drug Use

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", October 5, 1995.

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• This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Russia, Government, Invasion

  "Rice: Russia Risks International Condemnation". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. August 14, 2008.

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• The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, Two, Issues

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• McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

  Derrick Rose

  Mcdonalds, Stuff, Chips

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• Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish, you must get away to win. I've always found it effective to make a move just before the crest of a hill. You get away just a little and you're gone before your opponent gets over the top. Also, around a tight bend, take off like holy hell. I've done that a number of times. You should not be flying down the home straight. Most of your efforts should have been put forth earlier.

  John Treacy

  Wise, Running, Moving

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• Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Frozen

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.

  Price Pritchett

  Simple, People, Justice

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• So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!

  Chip Giller

  Independent, Air, Cities

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• I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mom, Mother, Care

  "Morissette draws from marriage, son for new album". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, newsok.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid.
  I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Hip Hop, Getting Laid

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