Quotes with off-the-hook

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  • Barbara McClintock If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Olin Miller If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Ben Bernanke If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Casey Stengel If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Walter Gropius If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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  • Barbara Corcoran If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Billie Jean King 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
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Ben Marcus In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Andy Hertzfeld In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Amy Hempel In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Bob Graham In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bode Miller In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Angela Merkel In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bill Hader In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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