Get Away Quotes

• Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Yourself

  "Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World". Book by Barbara Warren Holden and Jennifer Read Hawthorne, 2004.

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  Art is what you can get away with.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Freedom, Creativity

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• To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Travel, Vacation, Carpe Diem

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Moving, Differences

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Artist, Art Is

  "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

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• Reality is what you can get away with.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Pop Art

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

  Chesty Puller

  Marine, Fire, Usmc

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• you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Lost Generation, Sun Rise

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

  Chesty Puller

  War, Military, Marine

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• Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Thinking, Light, Obsessed

  Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.

  Ken Dodd

  Funny, Humor, Laughing

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• The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Breakfast, Firsts, Duty

  Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.116, Da Capo Press

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• In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.

  Auberon Waugh

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

  Joe Sakic

  Years, Games, My Family

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• I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn’t get away with it. I wasn’t Parcells. They make light of it, but they’re not making light of it with me.

  Tom Coughlin

  Light, Media, Rude

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• I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others

  Jon Hamm

  Growing Up, People, Trying

  "'People really needed convincing that they wanted me'". Interview With Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2008.

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• In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

  Peter Thiel

  Years, Printing Money, Debt

  "Technology = Salvation". Interview with Holman W. Jenkins Jr., www.wsj.com. October 9, 2010.

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• The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

  Henry Ford

  Land, Insecurity, Earth

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• Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Thinking, People, Want

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• I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

  Bill Gates

  Sports, Fun, Golf

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• I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better. I think I'm really taking a good look at the big picture. That's the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Sports, Home

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• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Exercise, Long, Track

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• If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Iran, Office

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• We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.

  Jacque Fresco

  Teaching, Men, Wisest Man

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