Get Away Quotes - Page 6

• I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Night, Long

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• In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

  Nathan Fillion

  Fun, Character, Trying

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• I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

  Al Franken

  Lying, Media, Wings

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• There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Government, Long, Waiting

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• Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Loss, Survival

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

  Larry Hagman

  Cancer, Receiving, Dallas

  "Larry Hagman Returns to His Old 'Dallas' Stomping Grounds" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.

  Geri Halliwell

  Children, Healthy, Pampered

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• It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Funny, Thinking, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Ordinary, Creation, Sabbath

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• I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

  Liz Phair

  Being Yourself, Feminist, Ultimate

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

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• Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

  Steven Pinker

  Democracy, Way, Anarchy

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• Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

  Brad Pitt

  Beast, Emphasis, Wrong Things

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• You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Trying

  Colin Powell, Joseph E Persico (2011). “A Soldier's Way: An Autobiography”, p.150, Random House

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• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  Dan Quayle

  Tangled, Here And There, Speech

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• We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Stress, Greed

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• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  Hans Rosling

  School, Opportunity, Rights

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• There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Peace, War, Lying

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• Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

  Francoise Sagan

  Way, Film, Arcs

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• You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

  Hillary Scott

  Whiskey, Be Good, Doughnut

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• Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

  David Sedaris

  Boys, Ifs, If I Could

  "A life in writing: David Sedaris" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Play, Band

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• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Fun, Poke, Right Place

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jan 15, 2014

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• God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

  Charles Stanley

  Children, Character, Blessing

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• It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

  Ben Stein

  Birthday, Smart, Men

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• This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

  Matt Taibbi

  America, Stealing, Pastime

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