Quotes with spin-off

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  • Barbara Kingsolver It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Busta Rhymes It's been three years since I last performed here so I'm dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I'm done, you're gonna remember it for a long time to come.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Brene Brown It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bill Hicks It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.
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  • Barry Zito It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Bill Gates It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
    Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Barbara Boxer Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Campbell Brown Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Alexander Pope Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Bill Goldberg Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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