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		Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				D. H. Lawrence
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Men and women will never understand each other; my advice is to just stop trying. Just forget it. I know I will never understand women. I will 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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jerry Seinfeld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laird Hamilton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Polson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrea Mitchell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become creatures that rip up the dust as they gallop across the Great Plains.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jerry Spinelli
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Polson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I kind of make my life an open book as long as the left exists to use Saul Alinsky tactics to destroy people, your background is going to be fair game. If you're a human being who has behaved as a human, they're going to use anything that you've done wrong against you. I've lived my public life as openly as possible so that they can't rip something out of my closet to use against me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Breitbart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jonathan Stroud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Shawn Mendes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Quentin Tarantino
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Robin LaFevers
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Joseph Lydon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanne Rowling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hafez
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like, "Ah, you dirty old dog!" I'm saying it more like that. I'm still ripping. I'm ready to rip. I'll make a bunch more records and have a nice time. We'll see what happens.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mac DeMarco