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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Cheer, Scotland

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• I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Ideas, Feelings, Style

  "60 SECONDS: Marcus Brigstocke". Interview with Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.

  Timothy Leary

  Tunes, Robots, Routine

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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• Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

  Quentin Crisp

  Drug, Exhibitionism, Novices

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  Edith Durham

  Italian, White, Long

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• When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Struggle, Fighting, Swim

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• I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

  Kurt Sutter

  Kids, Essentials, Television

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• Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Clothes, Together

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.8.

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• I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, "Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?" But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Ideas, Design, Bags

  "Nicola Formichetti on His Latest Muse". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. February 6, 2013.

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• The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.

  Ted Hughes

  Instruments, Changed, Fangs

  Ted Hughes (1970). “Poetry is”

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• I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.

  Ted Hughes

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Ted Hughes (2014). “A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• I figured that I wasn't as smart or talented as the other kids around, so I just had to work twice as hard. Surprisingly, results showed quickly. I was hooked!

  Philippe Kahn

  Smart, Kids, Results

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• When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

  Bert McCracken

  Thinking, Drug, Band

  "Meet Kelly Osbourne's Ex-Drug Addict Boyfriend". www.smh.com.au. February 19, 2003.

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• The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

  Theodore Gordon

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Meditation, Mind

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Giants, Attention

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• I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?

  Steve Wozniak

  Color, People, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• All the borders in the world are man-made There are no borders, we are all hooked together. Everything is connected. There is no line of demarcation. We are hooked together like the colors of a rainbow, our problem is ignorance, we don't understand that.

  Bob Proctor

  Ignorance, Men, Color

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year... and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read the stories on my site that are based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida… and I only lived there for a year.

  Tucker Max

  Couple, Crazy, Florida

  "Uncommon Interview: Tucker Max". Interview with Jen Glickel, www.chicagomaroon.com. May 17, 2005.

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• I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Beach, New York, Years

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• I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who cant get up off the couch because theyre so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

  Olga Kurylenko

  World, Different, Get Up

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• I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Botox, Want, Stuff

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• People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.

  John Lennon

  Christian, Dog, Teacher

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• There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

  Del Shannon

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• I'm a person that if I'm hooked with something then I know nothing besides that.

  Junsu

  Persons, Knows, Ifs

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