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• Hillary Clinton does not have to worry about the sirens and the gunshots night. She doesn't worry about it. She's sleeping. She's sleeping.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sleep, Night, Worry

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• There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Song, Book

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• When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.

  Emily Rios

  Block, Sleep, Cities

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

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• I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Atheist, Blessing, Thinking

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• I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

  George Chapman

  Song, Courage, Yield

  Eastward Ho act 5, sc. 1 (1605).

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• Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Stars, School

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

  Allan Bloom

  Ears, Enough, Danger

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

  Edward Kennedy

  Generations, Complacency, Messages

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1979). “Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy”

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• So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.

  William H. Macy

  Lying, Cities, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Responsibility, Evil, Age

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• I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I mean, like a police or ambulance siren in a tune? Because I could own the CD, I could listen to it 50 gamillion times in my car - I still fall for it every time.

  Doug Benson

  Song, Crazy, Hate

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• When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

  Ella Henderson

  Stupid, Dolphins, Noise

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• I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

  Julia Kent

  Struggle, Cities, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said. Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Names, Mermaid, Swim

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “The Calling: Number 2 in series”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.

  Edmund Clowney

  Moving, Panic, Seduction

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• Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Song, Swans, Tongue

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• That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

  Horace

  Sloth, Laziness, Avoided

  "Satires". II. 3. 14,

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• We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in the region and (2) to not let our enthusiasm for rebellion lead to cheering on the cruise missiles from US warships. These two sirens should worry us as we make our hesitant way alongside the rebirth of a New Left in the Arab world.

  Vijay Prashad

  Cheer, Two, Worry

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• My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

  David Knopfler

  Water, Kind, Oblivion

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• There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress.

  Hank Green

  Police, President, Cop

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• Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Blood, Pearls, Revolution

  Joe Eszterhas (1974). “Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse”

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• New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.

  Jay-Z

  New York, Wall, Writing

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.108, Random House Group

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• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  Queen Latifah

  Song, Kids, Guy

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• The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

  James Surowiecki

  Desire, Arise, Synergy

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• Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

  LeBron James

  Lonely, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview With Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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