Draining Quotes

• Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

  Alvin Ailey

  Dance, Pleasure, Choreography

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

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• Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

  David Soul

  Moving, Rewards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support.

  Puff Daddy

  People, Appreciate, Support

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• Don’t waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.

  Les Brown

  Running, Love Is, People

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• ...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Thinking, Darkness

  W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.34, Penguin UK

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• Plus it's just embarrassing when someone - oops.' She pressed a hand to her side, and had the blood draining out of Harper's face. 'What? What?' 'Nothing. baby's moving around. Sometimes it gives me a jolt is all.' 'You should stand up. You should sit down.

  Nora Roberts

  Baby, Moving, Blood

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy”, p.150, Penguin

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• The signs of psychic draining - we call aging.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Aging

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• That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mean, Self, Dry

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• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Epic, Cities, People

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

  Anne Lamott

  Joy, Parent, And Love

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

  Morris Chestnut

  Dirty, Air, Perfect

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

  Adam Smith

  Art, Government, People

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776)

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• It's time to refocus our global fight against terrorism. We must move away from the Iraq-centric policies that are draining our resources and focus on Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are reportedly operating in some 60 to 80 countries around the world.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Moving, Fighting

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• When you give of yourself, it's draining.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Giving

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• When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cutting

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• If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Relax, Should

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• The way people age is not the way people age ... everyone is draining everyone!

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Age, Way

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• Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

  Jonny Lang

  Realizing, Yeah, Touring

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• Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Dying, Oncologists, Patient

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• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  Laura Mvula

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have seen a big ship. She had got married since I went away; it was a made match, a man from the midlands, a Donal, who had worked in a garage but took to farming, out all day, draining fields and callows so that he could till them and sow corn.

  Edna O'Brien

  School, Night, Men

  Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you have money draining out of the public equity markets, that inevitably affects the private equity market. They cannot exist going in different directions because somehow that will rent the fabric of the universe. It's just not permitted that that happens. Obviously there can be anomalies for brief periods of time but it just can't happen forever.

  Kevin Kinsella

  Forever, Different, Fabric

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Dog, Scum Of The Earth, Earth

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I eat pretty clean, but the training is tiring. When you're training two times a day it can be really draining, so I'd rather stick with the diet.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Two, Training, Sticks

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget. Your home or apartment. Your car. Your insurance. If you are overspending on these big monthly bills, then money's draining out of your pocket a lot faster than you can replace it by clipping coupons or buying cheaper coffee.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Coffee, Home, Car

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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