Top 26 Siphoned Off Quotes

#1. Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

Darell Hammond

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#2. I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

Ellen Burstyn

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#3. While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

Henry Waxman

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#4. Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.

Stephen Hunter

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#5. The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.

Josephine Winslow Johnson

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#6. We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.

John F. Tierney

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#7. All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

George Eliot

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#8. Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.

Aimee Bender

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#9. North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin,

Olusegun Obasanjo

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#10. Every beautiful thing cracks and shatters and collapses and crumples and bleeds. If not now, it will eventually.

Han Yujoo

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#11. I'd never have thought of the residents of those neighbourhoods as community activists, though it did make sense that, if they were going to protest anything, it would be the possibility of gay sex in their immediate vicinity.

Drew Nellins Smith

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#12. It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Aimee Mullins

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#13. Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

Mona Simpson

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#14. I never think career.

Rhys Ifans

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#15. It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.

Tom Patton

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#16. Venice is a stage, Orelia. Pretend for no other reason than to act like everybody else.

Kylie Fornasier

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#17. By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

Bob Waterston

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#18. I love you. I've always loved you. And I'll go on loving you until I don't anymore.

Katy Regnery

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#19. I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.

Wilma Rudolph

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#20. Life is a dream of roses and the thorns prick us back to reality

Daljit Ranajee

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#21. It was as though her soul were neatly removed by a drinking straw and siphoned into the green pool of quiet that lay beneath the rippling cascade of notes.

Louise Erdrich

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#22. [Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

Lionel Shriver

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#23. Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Mehmet Oz

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#24. Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.

Cecelia Ahern

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#25. The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l;
the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent
the rich visual world of experience and
measurement on mere flatland?

Edward Tufte

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#26. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

Jackson Katz

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