Signing Off Quotes

• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

  Casey Kasem

  Education, Stars, Learning

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

  Ted Turner

  Play, Events, World

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Want, Life Is Like

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• I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Green, Firsts, Steps

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• One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

  David Rakoff

  Mind, Able, Reaching

  "I'm Dying to Meet You in the Next Life" by Dwight Eschliman, www.gq.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I can't get over that at this age I don't feel this age. I'm not trying to be any younger. I'm not lying about my age. If I were lying about my age, I would say I was 89. I'm just at one of those good times in one's life. I'm at one of the high spots. I'm healthy enough to enjoy it. I'm surrounded by friends I adore. Isn't that kind of the best way to sign off?

  Betty White

  Lying, Healthy, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Men, Doors, White

  "It's time to take the men-only sign off the White House door" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2003.

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• Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

  Judith Martin

  Email, Bother, Signing

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• If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

  James MacDonald

  Use, Happened, Hard

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.104, Moody Publishers

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• In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Kings, Decision, Democracy

  Slavoj Žižek (2009). “First As Tragedy, Then As Farce”, p.134, Verso

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• When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

  Newton N. Minow

  Book, Eye, Loss

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Husband, Father

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• One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

  Ray William Johnson

  Thinking, Ideas, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Struggle, Past

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote?”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• I'd love to find a small movie that someone would sign off on me to do. I have no aspirations to do a big studio film because I don't think anyone would let me.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Thinking, Film, Bigs

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've written it with you in mind. But TV is a collaborative art. It involves producers, networks, studios, and many people signing off on you. And a lot of times there are deals in place - actors with studios that they're looking for shows for.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Art, People, Black

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, People, Inspire

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• My original book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] was 1,700 pages. The first editor brought it down to 700; there was a lot that didn't make it in. But at last it's finished. I had a hard time signing off on it. And I was worried about it hurting anyone I loved even indirectly. I sat in my room afterwards for two hours wondering what I had done. I wondered about it being judged and if people would understand.

  Angela Alioto

  Hurt, Book, Heart

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as one of them. Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

  David Rakoff

  Men, Years, Mind

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• Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name

  Stephen Stills

  Music, Wall, Light

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• First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit and tone of your letter, and I think I did pretty well. []  I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh are unsightly-characterized as “hate speech.” 

  Dan Savage

  Hate, Thinking, Annoyed

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• I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.

  Newton N. Minow

  Eye, Air, Goes On

  Speech before National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., 9 May 1961

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• When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

  Simone Elkeles

  People, House, Guy

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