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• Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

  Annie Dillard

  Expression, Trying, Tasks

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Butterfly, Nfl, Crowds

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• nice is such a rip-off.

  Ntozake Shange

  Nice, Niceness

  Marvin Cohen, J. Gilhooley, M. Pinero, David Rabe, Ntozake Shange (1986). “Plays from the New York Shakespeare Festival”, Broadway Play Publishing

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Responsibility, Acceptance

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.

  Suzanne Gordon

  War, Divorce, Roots

  Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”

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• You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

  Simon R. Green

  Fashion, Angel, Want

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Agents Of Light And Darkness”, p.90, Penguin

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• Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.

  Neil Young

  Want, Digital, Vinyl

  Source: www.theabsolutesound.com

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• Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

  Garth Brooks

  Believe, Passion, Army

  "Locked and Loaded". Interview with Kevin Freiberg, www.freibergs.com.

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• And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.

  Nic Sheff

  Believe, Who I Am, Challenges

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.

  Robert Stawell Ball

  Parent, Mountain, Bed

  Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1906). “The Cause of an Ice Age”

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• I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.

  Angus Young

  Play, People, Crowds

  Interview with NME magazine, October 1976.

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• The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.

  Jim McDonald

  Heart, Office, Disadvantages

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• Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Justice, Democracy, Together

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• It'd be fun to rip Khloe's pubes out one by one.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Fun, Sassy

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• It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major city. I live in Toronto, and last year 3,000 people came out dressed as zombies.... I do not get it. Maybe it's an easy costume: Splash some ketchup on and rip up your jeans -- although most people already have torn jeans -- and you're done.

  George A. Romero

  Years, Jeans, Cities

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• Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.

  Tie Domi

  Golf, Player, Careers

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• Ciara’s new single is a complete rip-off of Usher’s ‘U Got It Bad.’

  Jermaine Dupri

  "Jermaine Dupri Slams Ciara: 'I Bet' Ripped Off Usher’s 'U Got It Bad'" by Madeline Boardman, www.usmagazine.com. March 16, 2015.

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• All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.

  Abby Sunderland

  Sea, Gears, Sometimes

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.

  Charles de Lint

  Summer, Real, Hippie

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• Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

  Daniel Smith

  Sound, Bob, Influence

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• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

  O. Henry

  Philosophy, War, Reflection

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• How could you forget someone you loved even if I did rip his heart to shreds?

  Tarryn Fisher

  Heart, Forget, One You Love

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• We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Machines, Break

  The Mark Levin Show, ABC Radio Networks, June 24, 2010.

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• Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Men, Independence

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So Im always looking for that angle in my own work.

  Brad Paisley

  Country, Writing, Trying

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

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