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"I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time."
"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
"It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended."
"My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away."
"I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me."
"Ignoring facts does not make them go away."
"Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away"
"The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting."
"The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians."
"Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them."
"If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that."
"I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us."
"What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I'd imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things."
"I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers."
"My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!"
"Go away... I'm alright."
"You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away."
"Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it."
"Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away."
"There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear."
