Great Escape Quotes

• It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

  Alice Hoffman

  World, Way, Break

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• The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

  Thomas Sowell

  Responsibility, Behavior, Our Time

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

  Damon Albarn

  Albums, Needs, Break

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• In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Book, Reading

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• In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing

  Justine Frischmann

  Mean, Oasis, America

  "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

  Steven Spielberg

  Fun, Believe, Winning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

  Diego Corrales

  Dad, Boxing, Trouble

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• Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.

  Michael Marmot

  Country, Book, Style

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• This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that were previously available only to a few individuals, and how this achievement has given rise to equally unprecedented inequalities. Unique in its focus and scope, exceptional knowledge and coherence, and careful argumentation, The Great Escape is highly illuminating and a delight to read.

  Thomas Pogge

  Book, Unique, Years

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• The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Art, Childhood, Theatre

  "The Family Stone - Sarah Jessica Parker interview" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

  Perry Farrell

  Children, Want, Hell

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• Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

  Dan Barker

  Fear, Opposites, Safety

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

  Geri Halliwell

  Reading, Fingers

  "Geri blossoms". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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