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The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!
Steven Weber
Vote
People
Voting
Wolf
Snake
Own
Down
Eating
Tend
Tail
Head
Like
Voters
Look
Idiotic
Gnawing
Off
Escape
Irony
Just
Trap
Actually
Right
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
War
Peace
Problems
Cowardly
Only
Escape
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
Thomas P. Campbell
You
World
Car
Calm
Physicality
Come
Like
Escape
Authenticity
Quiet
Where
Place
Uniqueness
Museums
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Anne Sullivan
Selfish
Imagination
Desperately
Our
Cling
Existence
Escape
Want
Commonplace
Chains
Imagine
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Bill Bradley
Wisdom
Saying
Imagination
We Cannot
Enables
Escape
Reply
Just
Common
Predictable
Cannot
Soar
Us
Watch
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles Spurgeon
Life
God
People
Determination
Nothing
Believe
Able
Shall
Divine
Never
Doctrine
Unto
Escape
Predestination
Happens
Apart
Eternal
Eternal Life
Certain
Decree
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
Writing
Madness
Fear
Sometimes
Situation
Panic
Those
Compose
Write
How
Wonder
Escape
Manage
Human
Form
Which
Inherent
Paint
Who
Therapy
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
Iggy Azalea
Love
Music
Art
Me
People
Giving
Important
Visuals
Something
Escape
Escapism
Just
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
Happiness
Nature
Gorgeous
Beauty
Autumn
Sunsets
Some
Provides
Escape
Dying
Gain
Ape
Who
Exquisitely
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam Brown
Beautiful
Dreams
People
Projection
Strong
Giving
Our
About
Horse
Powerful
Existence
Escape
Capability
Themselves
Us
Mundane
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
Food
Sign
Eating
Something
Emotional
Gluttony
Escape
Us
Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
Red Adair
Respect
Yourself
Fear
Job
Never
Open
Always
Leave
Escape
May
Door
Your
The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.
Robert Anthony
Best
Problem
Way
Solve
Best Way
Escape
Your
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
Too Much
Face
Argument
Important
Too
Side
Hatch
He
Over
Most
Most Important Thing
Without
Opponent
Important Thing
Leave
Loss
Escape
Gracefully
Being
The Most Important
Much
Next
Your
Apparent
Swing
Right
Thing
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
Tom Ford
Happiness
Life
Me
Key
Glasses
Thought
Country
Living
Kid
Television
City
Martini
Had
New
Very
Escape
Get
York
Artificial
New York
Influenced
Wanted
Little
Little Kid
Much
Really
Film
Film And Television
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
Alexandra Fuller
Me
Reality
World
Books
Way
Frank
Harsh
Harsh Reality
Impatient
Trivial
Both
Could
Had
Anne
Until
Read
Around
Fresh
Were
Diary
Escape
Frivolous
Literal
After
Literature
Then
Viewing
Found
Honest
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
Busta Rhymes
Truth
Problem
Negative
Society
Tries
Could
Conceal
Also
Hip-Hop
Lot
Reflects
Escape
Offer
Where
Information
Platform
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce
Man
Woman
Eyes
Old
Mirror
See
Some
Only
Self
His
Escape
Different
Old Self
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George Borrow
Has-Been
Dreary
Parent
Mischief
Attempt
True
Merely
Said
Idleness
Been
Itself
Very
Escape
Which
Vacuum
The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
J. K. Rowling
People
Some People
Some
Diverse
Seems
Mash
Individuals
Idea
Like
Very
Escape
Discussed
Where
Different
Again
Poor
Might
Reasons
It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going.
Jason Fried
Work
You
Frustration
Pride
Leader
Employees
Ownership
Easy
Only
Point
Lead
Feel
Also
Understand
Does
Real
Escape
Forget
Get
Going
Where
Them
View
Hard
Wide
Things
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Try
Consequences
Too
Later
Say
Easy
Only
Make
Escape
Suggestions
Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
Jo Cox
Blame
Desperate
Parents
Horror
Escape
Families
Experiencing
Wanting
Who
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
Joel Madden
Music
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
Somewhere
Whatever
Supposed
Go
Escape
Where
Want
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
John Candy
Myself
Character
You
Hide
Become
Think
Escape
May
Actor
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
John Ciardi
World
Classroom
Entrance
Escape
Should
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