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• Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship as a type of surrender. But maybe we should. Is it wrong to cede the solo to the duet. Surrender doesn't mean you lose, only that you no longer wish to fight.

  Franz Wisner

  Sports, War, Mean

  Franz Wisner (2009). “How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom”, p.74, Macmillan

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• When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Space, Names, Spheres

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• The second show [Judas Priest] there was a point where I stood back. We had a 40-foot ramp that went out into the crowd. Rob came out on the bike. It was raining. He drove the bike to the end of the ramp. I'm standing there looking at him. Rain coming down. Lights flashing. Blue smoke everywhere from the bike. He's on the bike with his metal horns in the air, and there were 30,000 people in front of him screaming. I remember thinking, "This is real."

  Richie Faulkner

  Real, Rain, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Fun, Different, Might

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

  Paul Walker

  Airplane, Car, Half

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• Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Judging, Skating, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of enforcement officers. We will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment new good paying jobs since World War II.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Party

  Hillary Clinton's Remarks From a Rally in Toledo, Ohio, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.

  Alex Hirsch

  Mom, Fall, Glasses

  Source: collider.com

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• Through getting sponsored and becoming a part of the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta, doors were being opened. The entire culture was shifting from ramps to street, and I sort of became a poster child for that.

  Mike Vallely

  Children, Doors, Culture

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

  Roger Angell

  Home, Feet, Two

  Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• In ramp skating, theres this guy Alex Perelson whos really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we havent seen before. Just different types of spin.

  Tony Hawk

  Guy, Skating, Different

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• For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

  Joe Klein

  Baby, War, Past

  "Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense" by Joe Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Taken, Sight, Dying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.64, Macmillan

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• My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Rain, Animal

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

  Sarah Palin

  Oil, Feet, Alaska

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• While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible.

  Tim Cook

  Team, Iphone, Order

  "iPhone 6 Sales Pass 10 Million Mark in First Weekend" by Luke Karmali, www.ign.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Parent, Terrible, Meek

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Personality, Arbitrary

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• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

  Linwood Barclay

  Car, Reputation, Switching

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• I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Effort, Defense

  Barack Obama's Statement on the Supercommittee, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 21, 2011.

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• Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

  Leonard Bishop

  Believe, Writing, Elephants

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• There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness - turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within - help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.

  David Lynch

  Our World, Light, Worry

  "David Lynch Questions 9/11 On National U.S. Radio". Prison Planet, January 25, 2007.

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• Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Weekend, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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• When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?

  Vijender Singh

  Believe, Boxing, Boxers

  "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. June 1, 2012.

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