Rip Quotes - Page 13

• We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Evil, Giving, Vices

  Henry David Thoreau (1996). “The nature writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• It's time that we recognize the Supreme Court is not the supreme being, and we change the policy to be pro-life and protect children instead of rip up their body parts and sell them like they're parts to a Buick.

  Mike Huckabee

  Children, Pro Life, Body

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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• You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

  Jodi Picoult

  Writing, Feelings, Needs

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

  Jim Jefferies

  Fun, Thinking, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: manofmany.com

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• Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.

  Gerard Way

  Cutting, Reality, Needs

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Kids

  "Kids Choose Green Day as Favorite Band". www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2006.

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• Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Halloween, Humor

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• New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Home

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• In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Heart, Cutting, Japan

  Source: therandominmyhead.tumblr.com

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• Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.

  Eric Bana

  Children, Swimming, Sound

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. April 2011.

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• Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence

  Joe Hill

  Kids, Wings, Littles

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• If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.

  Tony Parsons

  Hatred, Way, Doe

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• I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: "Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair" - and you're going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off!

  Bruce Willis

  Next Day, Vanity, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

  Andrew Bird

  Fun, Play, Giving

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.

  Andrew Greeley

  Men, Law, People

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• It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.

  Troy Polamalu

  Strong, Hair, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick here or there,we start to sound like ourselves. But it takes a long time to do so..." That'swhat he told me, and it worked for me.

  Branford Marsalis

  Cat, Player, Long

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• To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

  Amir Sulaiman

  Writing, Heart, Anesthesia

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• Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.

  John Polson

  Artist, Ideas, People

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• I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.

  John Polson

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Promise, Information, Way

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• That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.

  Steve Eisman

  Wall, Years, People

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• The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Cutting, Animal, Air

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen· 45:04". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• [My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

  Billy Crystal

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.

  Brian Reade

  School, Men, Class

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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