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• The day Caleb touched my hand and I saw all those things, I was excited. Yes, a little freaked but excited more. I felt like...everything I ever needed was right there. I still feel like that. It's not something you can just turn off and I wouldn't want to. I want him more than I need him.

  Shelly Crane

  Hands, Want, Littles

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• Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Light, Heathers, Promise

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• Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Technology, Phones, Email

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• If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

  Trey Gowdy

  Law, Categories, Certain

  "Congressman rips Obama for acting like tyrant". Fox News Interview, www.wnd.com. December 16, 2013.

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• After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

  Kim Edwards

  Daughter, Memories, Writing

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• It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Important, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do not approach my life tactfully at all, i'm incredibly impulsive and I am definitely an intense weirdo. I love living and I love people. They trip me out and I want to know more about them all the time. That isn't something I can turn off and on.

  Kristen Stewart

  Love, Life, People

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• I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother, Baby, Leaving

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• The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Piano, Keys

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Self, Feet, Giving

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• Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

  Brett Favre

  Reality, Light, Careers

  "Brett Favre: First and Ten". Ign Sports Interview, www.ign.com. 29 November 2004.

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• I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

  Stephen King

  Funny, House, Sanity

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• Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ideas, People, Political

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• I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Half, Fans, Republican

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

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• Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

  Joel Salatin

  Kitchen, Tvs, Turns

  "Joel Salatin: Folks, This Ain’t Normal". Interview with Kristin Wartman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mom, Running, Oil

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• My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

  Taylor Swift

  Order, Law, Csi

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• Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

  James Wolcott

  Blow, Years, Wish

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• If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Substance, Tvs

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• No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way, To make everything right Is for god to just reach out And turn off the light!

  Shel Silverstein

  Light, Yellow, White

  Shel Silverstein, “No Difference”

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• … it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Rain, Sky

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.497, RH Childrens Books

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• This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They find his awfulness transfixing. He's like a lousy 1970's disaster movie that they can't bring themselves to turn off, even though it is making their life worse every minute they leave it on.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Sleep, Boys

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• You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

  Jason Mraz

  Positive Thinking, Shining, Sun

  Song: The Remedy

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• When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

  Jason Mraz

  Falling In Love, Shining, Mind

  Song: The Remedy

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• These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.

  Sean Covey

  Real, Giving, Trying

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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