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• The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Thinking, Differences

  "Notes of a Dirty Old Man". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1969.

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• In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Brother, Wall, Garden

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.

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• The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

  Kristan Higgins

  Character, Warrior, Free Spirit

  "Character Pitfalls" by Kristan Higgins, www.savethecat.com. March 28, 2014.

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• There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

  John L'Heureux

  Fiction, Crafts, Parentheses

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• The work is primarily subject-driven.  All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context, at a specific moment in time. The thoughtful preparedness that defines my working method actually facilitates spontaneity and allows me to embrace surprise. I always have a game plan but view it as merely the jumping off point.

  Gregory Heisler

  Thoughtful, Unique, Views

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• I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Night, Pilots

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• When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.
  The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Fall, Ideas

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• AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers. AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Wrath, Sea, Punishment

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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• I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

  Judy Blume

  Sex, Mean, Kids

  Judy Blume (2014). “Forever”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

  Thomas Beecham

  Musical, Yaks

  "Beecham Stories: Anecdotes, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Thomas Beecham". Book edited by Harold Atkins and‎ Archie Newman, September 28, 1978.

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• Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

  Charlotte Mason

  Running, Children, Book

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and, as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less about the band and more about being with all those people, jumping up and down, drunk to the music.

  Noel Gallagher

  People, Drunk, Way

  "'U2 should shut up about Africa', says Noel Gallagher". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 8, 2007.

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• What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.

  Layne Staley

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

  Alan Watts

  Laughing, Creeps, Universe

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• The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

  Reid Hoffman

  Airplane, Journey, Way

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• By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Running, Boys, Challenges

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• I love the feeling of the weightlessness. I always love being in the water and to combine jumping off the side into the water feels like a different and fun way to be able to swim. I feel free like I could do anything

  Tom Daley

  Fun, Love Is, Water

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• You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

  Alexandra Fuller

  War, Hatred, Age

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• Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).

  Lee Haney

  Training, Jogging, Rope

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• I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Hate, Swimming, Water

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• If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Fall, Men, Able

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• To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.

  Roy Campanella

  Running, Home, Kissing

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• Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.

  Roy Campanella

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

  Florence Welch

  Tree, Hitting, Kites

  "What will Florence Welch say next - and will we understand it?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2012.

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• I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping.
  When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.

  Florence Welch

  Lying, Kids, Ideas

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