Quotes with off-the-wall

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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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  • Antonin Artaud We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Carson We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Adrian Edmondson We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Don DeLillo We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
    White Noise (2011) 32
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Alan Bennett We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Brene Brown We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bobby Wallace We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.
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  • Alan Bennett We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bing Crosby We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
    Bing Crosby
    American singer, comedian and actor (1903 - 1977)
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  • Cate Campbell We've seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Brad Bird Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bruce Jackson Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bubba Smith Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • O. Henry What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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