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• We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

  Paul Newman

  Life, Running, Thinking

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

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• In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

  Angela Merkel

  Christian, Football, Team

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

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• A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

  John Mayer

  Wedding, Men, Two

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• LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

  Nicole Kidman

  Twists, Turns, Plot Twists

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jan 04, 2017

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• I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

  Amber Heard

  Fighting, Share, Has Beens

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• However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

  Daniel Goleman

  Years, Meditating

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• Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Heart, Being Sad

  1926 War or Peace,'Young India'.

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• Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.

  Bobby Flay

  Moving, Thinking, Fire

  Bobby Flay (2007). “Bobby Flay's Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire!”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Path, Environment, Genes

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• I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Broadway, Tvs

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• I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.

  Elayne Boosler

  Running, Extremely Funny, Said

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• I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Play, Actresses, Screens

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• Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

  Roger Moore

  Humor, Years, Two

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• Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, School, Long

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Blow, Bangs

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Football, Clouds, Blue

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• I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Men, God Fearing Man

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• The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court.

  Dwyane Wade

  Couple, Years, Support

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• Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

  Pete Townshend

  Wind, Events, Curls

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• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Focus

  FaceBook post by Sachin Tendulkar from Apr 22, 2014

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• Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

  Jessica Savitch

  Men, Cameras, News

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

  Michael Jordan

  Volleyball, Dog, Practice

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• I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Joining, Fields

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• I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

  Robert Plant

  Character, Light, Rooms

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• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Simple, Men, Tvs

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

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