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“New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."”

Needs Made Home Would Be Funny Cities Comedy New York Grew Grew Up Yeah Addresses Holiday Pounds Drivers Rip Back Home Paranoid Cab Tokyo Inns Stomping Cab Drivers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads.”

Heart Self Games Cutting Violence Mortals Japan Rip Mortal Kombat

Author:Satoshi Tajiri

“Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.”

Knows Children Used Stuff Sound Our Children Ridiculous Your Children Swimming Flags Tides Rip Surf

Author:Eric Bana

“Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence”

Knows Littles Kids Wings Innocent Innocence Be You Little Kid Rip Cracked

Author:Joe Hill

“If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.”

Ifs Way Doe Hatred Insult Racist Illegal Remarks Rip Justin Intestines

Author:Tony Parsons

“I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: "Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair" - and you're going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off!”

Want Reason Done Bigs Film Turns Next Shapes Pages Scripts Fats Vanity Shirts Chairs Gym Next Day Rip Arses Shirt Off Getting In Shape

Author:Bruce Willis

“I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?”

Giving Play Care Fun Bits Masters Permission Solo Who Cares Rip Violin Swarms Showoffs

Author:Andrew Bird

“It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.”

People Knows Men Should Government Law Rich Vote Surprise Bitter Rip Rich Man Take Control Bitter Experience

Author:Andrew Greeley

“It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.”

Trying Important Strong Cases Hair Rip

Author:Troy Polamalu

“The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick here or there,we start to sound like ourselves. But it takes a long time to do so..." That'swhat he told me, and it worked for me.”

Way Long Language Sound Player Long Time Cat Rip

Author:Branford Marsalis

“To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed”

Knows Writing Heart Audience Performing Sincere Organs Layers Surgery Rip Peeling Dissecting Anesthesia Heart Surgery

Author:Amir Sulaiman

“Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.”

People Ifs Needs Ideas Ends Artist Stuff Support Figures Products Brilliant Rip Time And Money

Author:John Polson

“I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.”

People Ifs Thinking Artist Given Very Good Filmmaker Sensibility Rip Australian

Author:John Polson

“The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.”

Way Feels Might Individual Ability Information Internet Promise Broads Rolling Invited Rip Alexandria Plenitude

Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.”

People Years Persons Bigs Justice Gone Streets Wall Conscience Built Crisis Firm Castles Rip

Author:Steve Eisman

“When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique.”

Thinking Worry Technique Rip

Author:Yani Tseng

“In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips -- but not on every page. He expands his narrative to accommodate shrewd philosophy and inventive portraiture, a very amusing disquisition on Soviet latrines and a number of outlandish plot developments. In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurd.”

“Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb.”

Novel Tools Appreciation Propaganda Tone Touching Translations Rip Andrew Playfulness

Author:Ken Kalfus

“Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from the situation for use elsewhere. Videotape can be fed back into a given situation and enrich experience. Film extends man as a spectator. Videotape extends man as a cybernator. Film imports information. Videotape implodes indigenous data.”

Men Use Film Given Process Situation Information Involved Data Feds Elsewhere Feeding Spectators Indigenous Rip Imports Packaging

Author:Paul Ryan

“It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.”

Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times

“By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of them and putting them together. So it felt, actually, like one of those ideas that clicked for us, right away, on instinct.”

Ideas Stories Together Spirit Felt Findings Instinct Vans Hollow Rip Sleepy

Author:Alex Kurtzman

“There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.”

Way Years Kind Animal Millions Share Skins Blame Torture Rip Fur

Author:Natalie Imbruglia

“War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.”

War Blood Killing Guts Bloody Belly Rip Spills

Author:George S. Patton

“On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.”

Ifs Night Sound Fire Doors Car Lucky Police Broadway Rip Envelopes Sidewalk Police Cars

Book:Tom Stoppard in Conversation

Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation

“Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.”

Ifs Children Self Mother Order Cruelty Perceive Subtle Deceit Abyss Veils Rip Refined Vengeful

Author:Angela Carter

“When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.”

Ifs Different Pay Car Sells Posts Engines Sections Rip Dealer

Author:Bill Gates

“People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.”

People Should Rip Cds

Author:Bill Gates

“Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good.”

People Writing Looks Persons Said Stories Use Lying Hurt Powerful Forever Rip

Author:Joan Bauer

“These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.”

People Thinking Men Two Artist Oil Administration Gas Rip

Author:Gore Vidal

“Rip Van Winkle, who said, Don't make the bed; I'm just going to the bathroom. Never got a dinner!”

Said Bed Dinner Bathroom Vans Rip

Author:Red Buttons

“Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.”

Bigs Right Now Buying Rip Bucks Lingerie Panties Dryers Bookmarks

Author:Carol Leifer

“I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.”

Thinking Mind Sometimes Moments Hands Film Cameras Rip Shouting Assistants

Author:Ellen von Unwerth

“The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.”

People Way Ideas Sells Performers Rip

Author:Iggy Pop

“Did you hear what the Republicans have said about Hillary Clinton? They say she's too angry to be president. Hillary Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, too angry to be president. When she heard this, Hillary said, 'Oh yeah? I'll rip your throats out, you bastards.'”

Said President Heard Republican Yeah Angry Clinton Throat Senators Rip

Author:David Letterman

“The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.”

“When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.”

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Author:David Foreman

“You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.”

Moving Opponents Lungs Rip

Author:Al Gore

“I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.”

Knows Stills Hair Roots Hot Spiders Rip Thighs Boiling

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I liked the Beatles but I wasn't mad on the Stones. I always thought they were a slight rip-off of Chuck Berry and some of the old blues people, and they never seemed to change. If people compare me to Jagger and the Stones I would be the one to be put down ... I've been far more progressive than any of them.”

People Ifs Would Be Stones Mad Compare Progressive Rip Chuck Berries Jagger

Author:Cliff Richard

“Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush makes so many Americans want to rip their hair out, a lot of Democrats have finally, viscerally come to understand Clinton-loathing. Mutual, symmetrical disillusionment; it's a start.”

Want Reality America Hair Republican Red Blue Clinton Democrat Reaching Mutual Consensus Rip Fractions Loathing Disillusionment Symmetrical Red And Blue

Author:Kurt Andersen

“I was always the weirdo at school. When I became a model [at 16], I didn't tell anybody. I was terrified that the kids would rip me to pieces.”

Kids School Pieces Models Terrified Rip Weirdo

Author:Karen Elson

“The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist in whatever you do, and rip them off with respect. I think there's a big difference between ripping off with respect and ripping off in disrespect.”

Thinking Way Bigs Kids Artist Differences Rip Disrespect Working Now

Author:M. Ward

“Katrina was one of those things that rips the clothes off of the guy who keeps saying he's a saint, and underneath you see that he's a monster.”

Guy Clothes Saint Monsters Rip Katrina

Author:Junot Diaz

“I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have; 18 million people now have healthcare; preexisting conditions are no longer a bar.”

People Want Millions Conditions Security Bars Healthcare Rip

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Now Pope Francis on his overnight flight back to Italy explains how contraception can be justified. This is the pope, the Vicar of Christ, the Catholic Church explaining how contraception could be justified. And then he rips into capitalism and the American immigration policies while at the Mexican border before getting on his plane to go back to Italy.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Facts are now coming to light that show Muslims were not responsible for 9/11. A policy came out of the Pentagon to make war and to pit the Muslims against each other and rip up these "cells of terror."”

War Facts Shows Light Policy Responsible Terror Cells Pits Rip Pentagon

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“They [Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz] will never give peace a chance because they are saying the moment they are elected, the first thing they will do is to rip up the agreement that allowed $150 billion of Iranian money to be returned to them. They don't want this agreement and that will surely lead to war.”

Want Giving Firsts War Moments Chance Billions Agreement Rip Iranian Cruz Marcos

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.”

Ifs Knows Want I Can House Stuff Can Do Simple Space Mines Wall Terrible Quiet Everyday Tiny Holes Rip Vinyl Quiet Place Dorky Tiny Houses

Author:Justin Vernon

“The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.”

Might Would Be Able Animal Cutting Air Rip Gorillas Ballparks

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.”

Knows Art Made Matter Together Mother Actors Teacher Television College Brother Hero No Matter What Singers Producers My Brother Always Believe Rip Older Brother Art Teacher

Author:Billy Crystal

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