Get Away Quotes - Page 7

• I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

  Clarence Thomas

  Groups, Sympathetic, Wanted

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• I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

  Liv Tyler

  Birthday, Nice, Age

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• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  Ville Valo

  Song, Drug, Everyday

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• Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

  Christopher Walken

  Funny, People, Guy

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts. The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion the law as he sees fit.

  Earl Warren

  Fashion, Law, Long

  Speaking to William O. Douglas on the afternoon of the day he died, July 09, 1974. "The Court Years, 1939-1975 : The Autobiography of William O. Douglas" by William O. Douglas, p. 514, 1980.

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• Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Luck, Needs, Manners

  In Observer 15 Apr. 1962

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• Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

  Allen West

  America, White, Black

  "Rep. Allen West To Black Voters: Give GOP A Chance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 27, 2012.

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• I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

  Shaun White

  Funny, Jeans, Black

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• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

  George Will

  Leadership, Pain, Long

  George F. Will (1983). “Statecraft As Soulcraft: What Government Does”

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• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Keys, Upset

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• I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

  Carnie Wilson

  Eras, Stuck, Seems

  PARADE Readers Chat With Wilson Phillips, parade.com. April 23, 2012.

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• It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Winning, Awards, Clothes

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

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• I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

  Tiger Woods

  Mean, Fishing, Games

  "Outtakes with Tiger Woods". Interview with Dan Patrick, www.espn.com. May 08, 2002.

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• I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

  Tiger Woods

  Wanted, Core Values, Core

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• I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

  Neil Young

  Ideas, Young, Naive

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• Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

  Flannery O'Connor

  Gone, Where You Come, Where You Are

  Flannery O'Connor (2015). “Wise Blood”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Fate, Wish

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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• Can't get away from your own self.

  Holly Black

  Self

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• I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Hate, Russia

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1707, e-artnow

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• If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

  Vince Lombardi

  Running, Men, Streets

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Thug, Leather Jackets

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.” Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we’re trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, “I never let my kids get away with that.” We really all need to chill out.

  Dean Hughes

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

  Anton Chekhov

  Escaping, Useless, Prison

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2939, Delphi Classics

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• It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Splits, Way, Sides

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• The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

  Starhawk

  Dark, Moon, Fire

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