Quotes with off-the-wall

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  • Barbara Boxer So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Billy Bragg So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Gordon R. Dickson Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
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  • Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Butch Trucks Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Benny Blanco Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work through that wall. But if you know something is there, you've gotta just keep doing it until you get it right. So, I'll work on a song for three months if I have to, to get it right.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bryce Harper Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It's something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You're just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • W. C. Fields Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. C. Fields Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Barack Obama Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Art Buchwald Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Beth Henley That's what I like about [smoking]... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Butch Trucks The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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