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• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  Zakk Wylde

  Two, Wife, Guy

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• You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

  Chita Rivera

  Light, Theatre, Speak

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• When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.

  Joe Perry

  Guitar, Flames, Play

  FaceBook post by Joe Perry from Mar 24, 2015

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• My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, Dad, Littles

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• If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

  Sally Field

  Acceptance, Waiting, Half

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• I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Exit

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

  Maureen Dowd

  Volleyball, Eye, Garden

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• Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Memories, Remembers Everything, Looks

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• Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Years, People, Car

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• All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Book, Gay

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• If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart during the night, and in the morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.

  Mark S. Fowler

  Morning, Heart, Night

  "Required Reading; Sickbedside Monitor". www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all things. If we want it, we only have to plug into it with the master keys of desire and trust.

  Walter Russell

  Heart, Keys, Promise

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• By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

  Barry Schuler

  Writing, Technology, Able

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• So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that GAO has identified and recognize that there will be some costs to doing that? Or do we want to make sure that business isn't hampered and that people can move back and forth readily, and recognize that, if we don't put some barriers in place, we're going to wind up with dangerous people coming into the country?

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, Moving, Wind

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• Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans - you know the answer before I say it - that's not good.

  Dennis Miller

  Technology, Blood, Visions Of The Future

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• What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Pistols, Skirts, Reason

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.13, Penguin

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• They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Uncles, Yes I Can

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• She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better." "Define BETTER with that guy." "Not all fangs and raaaaar.

  Rachel Caine

  Guy, Labs, Ghost Town

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.179, Penguin

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• Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A.M. so I could get up and plug in Hot Stix...I would study the curls in the mirror, impressed with both the appliance and my newfound ability to use it. Then, without fail, at the last second before leaving for school, I would ask myself, "Am I supposed to brush it out or leave it?" Why could I never remember" That feeling of "I'm pretty sure this next step is wrong, but I'm just gonna do it anyway" is part of the same set of instincts that makes me such a great cook.

  Tina Fey

  School, Mirrors, Feelings

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• I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.

  Anne Lamott

  Memories, Writing, Worry

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• The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loss, Winning, Night

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.16, Macmillan

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• I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.

  Darin Strauss

  Running, Dark, Emotional

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.14, Random House

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• She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

  Angela Carter

  Moving, Eggs, Space

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

  Ian Anderson

  Thinking, Dvds, People

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