Turned Off Quotes

• Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Night, Light, Desert

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• Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Memories

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• I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

  Mila Kunis

  Silly, Men, Thinking

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• I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

  John Chancellor

  Light, Long, Atheism

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• When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs.

  Eudora Welty

  Music, Song, Sweet

  Eudora Welty (1974). “The Wide Net and Other Stories”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Thinking, Double Minded, Focus

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• A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum will build, through these early efforts, for more comprehensive solutions.

  Van Jones

  Effort, Friendly, Would Be

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• A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

  Helen Reddy

  Feminist, Firsts, Appearance

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• I am actually turned off when I look at an account and don’t see any selfies, because I want to know whom I’m dealing with. In our age of social networking, the selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

  James Franco

  Eye, Age, Networking

  "The Meanings of the Selfie" by James Franco, www.nytimes.com. December 26, 2013.

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• Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.

  John D. MacDonald

  Journey, Animal, People

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• All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.

  Shalane Flanagan

  Fire, Tough Times, Littles

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• There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

  Al Goldstein

  Men, Doors, Robots

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• How do you restart something that had never been turned off?

  Veronica Rossi

  Veronica Rossi (2014). “Under the Never Sky: The Complete Series Collection: Under the Never Sky, Roar and Liv, Through the Ever Night, Brooke, Into the Still Blue”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Littles, Formulas, Symbols

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 275, 1991.

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• I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Eight, Race

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• On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Order, Iron, Raf

  "Vanessa Redgrave: 'I want to give people the jolliest time'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Psychology, Poison

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• Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

  Sharon Gless

  Men, He Man

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• The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Way, Being Famous

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 01, 2009.

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• There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.

  Steve Chabot

  Party, People, Concerned

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• I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Three, Pay, Bills

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• 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

  David Harsanyi

  Country, Men, Order

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• And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a great sweep of the wrist, dropped him on the ground like a cut flower. As always, I carefully cleared the engine, turned off all the switches one by one, removed the straps, the wires and the tubes which tied me to him, like a child to his mother. And when my waiting pilots and my mechanics saw my downcast eyes and my shaking shoulders, they understood and returned to the dispersal in silence.

  Pierre Clostermann

  Mother, Children, Flower

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• The only thing pot does for me is it gets me to stop thinking. Sometimes I have a brain that needs to be turned off. Some people are just better high.

  Justin Timberlake

  Weed, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

  Richard Armour

  Offending, May, Radio

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