Quotes with getting

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  • Erica Jong In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Bob Edwards In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Bill Paxton In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I ride a single-speed bike up the hills behind my house. Lately I've been kind of a slacker. Usually it's a film role that makes me start getting in shape. Between roles, I try to do a little maintenance, but I'm not a workout fanatic at all.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Billy Bush In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?
    Billy Bush
    American radio and television host (1971 - )
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bruce McCulloch In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Oscar Wilde In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Lewis Grizzard Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
    Lewis Grizzard
    American journalist (1946 - 1994)
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  • Robert Townsend Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Jim Rohn It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Augustus Hare It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Emily Carr It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Donald Rumsfeld It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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  • Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bruce Davison It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Ben Folds It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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