Avoid Quotes

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
Adrian Lyne

Try, Challenge, Few

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.
Andrew Stanton

Person, Living, Why

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
Russell Banks

Simple, Book, Real

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Eric Burdon

Life, Live, Envy

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
Ari Fleischer

Country, Choice, Leave

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
Vanessa Carlton

House, Pianos, Plus

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
Lasse Hallstrom

Trying, Possible, Truthful

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
Gavin Newsom

Life, Government, Help

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
Kim Il-sung

Peace, Struggle, Important

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
Anthea Turner

Time, Everything, Looking

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
Andrew Sullivan

Live, Often, Felt

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.
Saffron Burrows

Time, Thoughts, Wanted

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.
Jason Isaacs

Love, Work, Hate

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
Michael McKean

Stay, Becoming, Academic

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy de Maupassant

War, Government, Duty

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
Paul Watzlawick

Nature, Person, Another

When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
Ben Shahn

Work, Criticize, Horrible

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
Jim Talent

Hide, Corporate, Bills

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.
John Cornyn

Health, War, Care

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Andy Summers

Music, Trying, Jazz

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
Andy Summers

Forward, Past, Hard

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
Max Cannon

Politics, Culture, Deal

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Laurence Housman

Great, Regret, Wanted

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
Richard Neal

Tax, Burden, Benefits

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.
Michael Clarke Duncan

Different, Try, Roles

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.
Wietse Venema

Work, Choice, Software

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.
Clint Black

Time, Truth, Hate

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
Hideki Tojo

Power, War, Made

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
Wilt Chamberlain

Give, Open, Ways

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
Charles Francis Richter

Happy, Small, Wanted

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