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• Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.

  French Montana

  Mother, Father, Son

  "French Montana: Homecoming" by Zach Baron, www.thefader.com. September 25, 2012.

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• When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Sports, Fighting, Law

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• It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fall, Together, Earth

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• I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

  Black Francis

  Musician, Records, Want

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 23, 1998.

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• The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Trying, Timeless, Ends

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• The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Golf, Play

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• Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Inspiring, Years, Ideas

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• Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare Money's tight, nothin' free Won't somebody come and rescue me? I am stranded, caught in the crossfire Stranded, caught in the crossfire! Tooth for tooth, eye for an eye Sell your soul just to buy, buy, buy Beggin' a dollar stealin' a dime Come on can't you see that I I am stranded, caught in the crossfire

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Eye, Night, Light

  Song: Crossfire

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• Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Meditation

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• We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Philosophy, Fall

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• You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook.

  Frederick Lenz

  Different, Textbooks, May

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• Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Writing, People, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

  Jamie Bell

  Morning, Next, Might

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson"". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Destiny, Self, Cells

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• One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.

  Mike Tyson

  Morning, Men, Hands

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• One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

  Dalai Lama

  Failing, Description, Perceive

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• Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

  Stephanie Mills

  Prayer, Cat, Glasses

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.30, Island Press

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• Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reflection, Reality, Mirrors

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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• The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Color, Use

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• And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

  Robert Bly

  Men, Earth, Old Man

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wrath, Light, Taverns

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.201, University of Virginia Press

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• We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Running, Teaching, Mad

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• My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

  Brian Johnson

  Knowing, Risk, Paint

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• The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman Begins ... All I can tell you is, we're talking. There was quite an air of secrecy around the development of 'Batman Begins,' and there will be even more around the development of another film, if they move forward.

  Christopher Nolan

  Christian, Stars, Moving

  "Industry Buzz" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. August 21, 2005.

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