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• A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.

  Mark Grace

  Team, Slumps, Woods

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• I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

  Garth Brooks

  Girl, Dad, Nuts

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• Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love Is, Trying, Variables

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• If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

  Richard Branson

  Flower, People, Ends

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• You get to shoot things, and things blow up, and you're jumping off of buildings. It's insane! And hot girls. And you get to dress cool. And you're in a movie with Tom Cruise, come on! So it's a dream come true. Truly.

  Josh Holloway

  Girl, Dream, Blow

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• Nearly anything you need to get at the gym you can get naturally.A lot of training I do is running up hills, running up steps, just in the woods behind my house. Jumping on to things. All these things you can do anywhere, you don't have to go to the gym.

  Greg Rutherford

  Running, House, Training

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• When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

  Clive Owen

  People, Joy, Feelings

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether. But one can learn to manage it by skillful use of the handle of control. They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened; then someone got him drunk; and finally, a scorpion bit him.

  Ervin Seale

  Drunk, Mind, Scorpions

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

  Ann Patchett

  Rivers, Jumping In, Persons

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.306, A&C Black

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• I don't feel lonely. No no no. I feel like I'm jumping in a well that has no bottom, and at some point I know I'll hit bottom. I never put a time limit on it. I'm oblivious to anything except that which I'm doing.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Lonely, Limits, Wells

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 1, 2010.

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• Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that you've never been to before, then finding your way through. That's the type of trip that excites me.

  Dhani Jones

  Airplane, Cities, Ordinary

  "Best Fantasy Football Tips From Dhani Jones". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. September 4, 2014.

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• When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

  Gary Hoey

  Hard Work, Player, Guitar

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• But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

  Mother Jones

  Rocks, Hands, Break Out

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• Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

  Harold Acton

  Exercise, People, Conclusion

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• I love to create and I love to be challenged and I love to do things that are scary, so I think I would probably think about jumping off a bridge if somebody told me that's going to make that shot real great. I'd be like, "Okay, here we go, let's do it." Like, yeah.

  Emmy Rossum

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Thinking, Guitar, Trying

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• The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.

  Simon Schama

  Stars, War, School

  "This much I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2005.

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• I don't have any expectations about my films. If they're good, they're good - if they're not, they're not. About 10 years ago, I remember going to see one of my movies - I can't even remember which one now - and everyone was jumping up and down, getting excited, saying what a great film it was going to be. We all went in and watched it, and it was the slowest movie I've ever seen. The next day, the reviews were terrible and half the studio was fired.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Next Day, Years, Expectations

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• Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

  Jason Aldean

  People, Want, Hearing

  "A-T web exclusive interview with Jason Aldean". www.audio-technica.com.

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• Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.

  Jack Johnson

  Running, Guy, Hard

  Source: www.boxingforum24.com

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• I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Fun, Book

  Source: content.time.com

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• When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Humor, Three

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• The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

  Reid Hoffman

  Airplane, Use, Way

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• It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or whatnot, and jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing a fancy lead guitar. And they get mad when I sing a heartfelt emotional song and if there's an album full of them.

  Butch Walker

  Song, Emotional, Yelling

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.

  Jose Parla

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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