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In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else. -- George W. Bush
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender. -- Dan Barker
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing. -- Michael Marmot
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that were previously available only to a few individuals, and how this achievement has given rise to equally unprecedented inequalities. Unique in its focus and scope, exceptional knowledge and coherence, and careful argumentation, The Great Escape is highly illuminating and a delight to read. -- Thomas Pogge
When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.' -- Steve McQueen
Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.' -- M. C. Gainey
For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt. -- Geri Halliwell
The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior. -- Thomas Sowell
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape. -- Diego Corrales
Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage. -- Perry Farrell
I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape. -- Steven Spielberg
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. -- Alice Hoffman
I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work. -- Damon Albarn
The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape -- Shania Twain
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape. -- Shania Twain
I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great. -- Perry Farrell
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. -- Horace
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. -- Julian Barnes
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great. -- Philip K. Dick
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. -- Orson Scott Card
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. -- Blind Melon
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. -- Ella Maillart
I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it. -- Bailey Chase
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. -- Bertrand Russell
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I. -- Henry David Thoreau
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art. -- Arthur Symons
The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist. -- Matt Ryan
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery. -- Hal Holbrook
Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me. -- Petra Haden

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