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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. -- Abbie Hoffman
I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it. -- Chico Buarque
Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it. -- Leo Durocher
I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it. -- Robert Webb
Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it. -- David Sedaris
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it. -- Junot Diaz
Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life. -- Francoise Sagan
E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it. -- Tom Hanks
Cheaters never prosper, unless they get away with it. -- Daniel Tosh
Little dogs bite more than big dogs but they get away with it. -- Cesar Millan
Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it. -- Ed Viesturs
Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it. -- Donald A. Norman
Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it. -- Harold Ramis
I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it. -- Larry Wall
Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last. -- Leo Durocher
I learned from #"? Hemingway that you could be a #"? writer and get away with it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it. -- Robin Williams
I will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it. -- Anthony Jeselnik
China only did the biggest devaluation in 20 years, only for one reason. Because they could get away with it. -- Donald Trump
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Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it. -- Jack Gantos
Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children. -- Laura Schlessinger
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. -- George Will
If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening. -- Sharon Stone
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. -- Christopher Morley
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter. -- Louise Brooks
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going. -- Abbie Hoffman
I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them. -- Tyler Posey
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. -- Simon Wiesenthal
It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it. -- Mo Ibrahim
Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys. -- Steve Spurrier
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog. -- Martin Freeman
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it. -- Margaret Mead
I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act. -- Liz Phair
We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person. -- Tim Gunn
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it. -- Margaret Mead
We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it. -- Charles Evers
I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it. -- Alan Hollinghurst
The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it. -- W. H. Auden
Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it. -- Sufjan Stevens
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government -- J. P. Morgan
Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves. -- John Waters
You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away. -- Colin Farrell
All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it. -- Christopher Moore
This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed. -- Condoleezza Rice
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself. -- Dizzy Gillespie
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct. -- Jack Kingston
Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing. -- Jonny Lee Miller
When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places. -- Ian Somerhalder
I see the horrible way some stars deal with other people, and I don't know how they get away with it. Maybe it comes back to them in a different karma. -- Emily Lloyd
It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover. -- Joe Arpaio
The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes. -- Margaret Thatcher
Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage. -- Ed Koch
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable... -- Roald Dahl
I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it. -- Steven Seagal
When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny? -- Christopher Walken
I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it. -- Bill Maher
I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it. -- Sean Bean
If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they're going to get away with it, you just go out there and ruin their day, too. That's they way I feel. -- Kasey Kahne
I will reveal to the American people over and over and over again the Clinton way, say what you have to say to get elected, lie as long as you can get away with it. -- Carly Fiorina
CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it. -- Jay Leno
I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it. -- Andrew Eldritch
I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.' -- Tina Fey
I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. -- Alex Winston
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up. -- Paul Castellano
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous! -- Terry Goodkind
Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it. -- Josh Lieb
I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it. -- Adele
I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules. -- Jeff Probst
I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn't get away with it. I wasn't Parcells. They make light of it, but they're not making light of it with me. -- Tom Coughlin
Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it. -- Jennifer L. Holm
In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you're highlighting this astounding artichoke, it's got to be an astounding artichoke. -- Michael Pollan
I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics. -- Robert Kirkman
So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it! -- Chip Giller
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. -- Dean Koontz
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it... -- Auberon Waugh
... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future. -- Jane Green
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works. -- Tom Robbins
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. -- Ben Stein
One of our very favorite shows of 2008 was our Slowtrain instore. We drove straight from San Francisco, pulled up to the back of the store, dragged our entire setup inside and played our new album, Rook, start-to-finish - and they let us get away with it. -- Jonathan Meiburg
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician. -- Blythe Danner
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag. -- Margaret Thatcher
I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it. -- Kelly Osbourne
Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men. -- Rick Perlstein
I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things. -- Damien Hirst
It's just like we do over here in America, right? It's amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right? It's amazing that Bill Clinton could do one thing and have sex with his secretary and really get away with it and still be powerful. -- Dennis Rodman
There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius. -- Fredric Brown
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. -- Carl Sagan
I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am 23 and can get away with it. If I didn't have the show, I would be in one right now. It would be denim, but I love a terry. -- Andy Cohen
The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made. -- Warren Spector
A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it. -- Khaled Hosseini
I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous. -- Rian Johnson
It's easy to get carried away with yourself. -- James Nesbitt
I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke. -- Don Rickles
Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody! -- Joshua Jackson
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it. -- Georg Solti
Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it. -- Mike Judge
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. -- Raymond Queneau
It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide. -- Mike Judge
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. -- Akshay Kumar
McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that. -- Derrick Rose
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it. -- John Shirley
There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older. -- Joe Flaherty
It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner. -- Malcolm Turnbull
You can get away with anything as long as it works. -- Darryl Pinckney
By giving away with kindness, you get it back with greatness. -- Debasish Mridha
Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex? -- Rick Riordan
A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it's a fake one. -- Masashi Kishimoto
I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it. -- Trey Songz
With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white. -- Rebecca Twigg
Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference. -- Nelly
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder. -- James Carville
Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you. -- RZA
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. -- Alessandra Stanley
The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter. -- Alan Patricof
If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth. -- Neel Burton

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