Going Away Quotes - Page 22

• The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Long, World

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  Harlan Coben

  Thinking, Insecurity

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• I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

  Jim Carrey

  Blow, House, Safe

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• I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

  Jim Carrey

  Selfish, Thinking, Sick

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• If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

  Michael Caine

  Home, Wife, Three

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• I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Horse, Winning

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• During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

  John Boehner

  Afterlife, Leader, World

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• I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Children, Home, Two

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• I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that’s not just physically, it’s psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.

  Drew Barrymore

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  "Drew Barrymore: Sometimes I Look Like Shamu". Harper’s Bazaar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  Adam Ant

  Malaria, Medication, Triggers

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• If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

  Jonathan Davis

  Men, Feelings, Needs

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• When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I've had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Girl, Dog, Sleep

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• The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

  Black Elk

  Country, Fall, Moon

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

  Shannon Hoon

  Eye

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• I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

  Ashley Greene

  Selfish, Three, Months

  "Ashley Greene On The Pitfalls Of Dating In Hollywood" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?

  Amy Grant

  Fire, Flames, Frustrated

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• I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, Missing, Comforting

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

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• Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

  Jane Goodall

  Anger, Echoes, Nastiness

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• If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Locks, Want

  "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.

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• You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

  Will Ferrell

  Trying, Want, Mayors

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• I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

  Paloma Faith

  Book

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• You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Moving, Moving Forward, Doubt

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• I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

  Bryan Adams

  Vancouver, Three, Months

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• Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Judging, Trying

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.103, Penguin

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• Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

  Dean Koontz

  Vocabulary, Trying, Cliche

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