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  • I think music docs could turn off some people. -- Malik Bendjelloul
  • Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day. -- Karen Finerman
  • It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time. -- Marianne Williamson
  • If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law? -- Trey Gowdy
  • We need people interested, otherwise literally the lights turn off. -- Justin Hartley
  • Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. -- Timothy Leary
  • You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine! -- Jason Mraz
  • You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine -- Jason Mraz
  • We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. -- Shel Silverstein
  • If you don't like how we play, then turn off the tv. -- Sergio Ramos
  • He probably couldn't turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.' (Abbie) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. -- Nelson Mandela
  • I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments. -- Jason Calacanis
  • When you just have a torch and horror around you... then turn off the torch. -- Mohammad Ali V
  • E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being. -- Jeff Bezos
  • You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet. -- Rusty Schweickart
  • Too much nudity is a turn off. Especially if all that flesh is on one person. -- Jarod Kintz
  • As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4. -- Steve Coogan
  • You might be a redneck if directions to your house include turn off the paved road. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head - I was psyching myself out. -- Michelle Kwan
  • I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is. -- Marilyn Manson
  • When your spouse is talking; turn off the television. When your child is talking turn off the world. -- Crystal DeLarm Clymer
  • I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand. -- Colleen McCullough
  • I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. -- Stephen King
  • In the limelight I play it off fine, but I can't handle it when I turn off my night-light. -- Kesha
  • Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. -- Joel Salatin
  • I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. -- Ellsworth Kelly
  • One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time. -- Annie Leibovitz
  • We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something. -- Brene Brown
  • How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV? -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound. -- Sam Ewing
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  • My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea. -- Chrisette Michele
  • When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! -- George S. Patton
  • If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen. -- Ann Patchett
  • Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again. -- Ellen Hopkins
  • While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed. -- Andrew Niccol
  • If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally. -- Joe Trippi
  • Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic. -- Eden Robinson
  • Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace. -- Richard Simmons
  • When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off. -- Steve Jobs
  • In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now. -- Raymond Carver
  • In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now. -- Raymond Carver
  • Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat. -- Pope Francis
  • I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base. -- Lindsay Lohan
  • If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night. -- Stephen Hawking
  • When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off. -- Fawn Weaver
  • I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap. -- Dean Norris
  • You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice. -- David D. Burns
  • After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. -- Jonathan Rauch
  • My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of Fortune for that. -- Roseanne Barr
  • But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head. -- Jay Asher
  • Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water. -- William J. Clinton
  • I'm curious to see what happens in England because in all this madness I think I can always go home to England and it'll all turn off. -- Robert Pattinson
  • I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember. -- Elizabeth Berg
  • Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. -- James Wolcott
  • There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world. -- Fareed Zakaria
  • I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump -- Tre Cool
  • I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump. -- Tre Cool
  • A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent. -- James Lipton
  • Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand. -- Gary Shteyngart
  • Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway. -- Sloane Crosley
  • To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life. -- Sean Covey
  • When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep. -- Louis C. K.
  • Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it. -- Amy Heckerling
  • I could never have a threesome. This is not a threesome body. This is a turn off the lights body, leave your shirt on body - this is a tell nobody. -- Felipe Esparza
  • Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
  • In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
  • There's a hurricane coming to Florida, and there will be high winds. I should probably turn off my ceiling fans, to try to mitigate the billions of dollars in damages the storm will incur." -- Jarod Kintz
  • Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head. -- Jim Lehrer
  • I don't like boys who are mean to their mommies. That's a real turn off for me. And I don't like boys who aren't chivalrous. To me, not being respectful is a big deal. -- Megan Fox
  • You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives -- Stephen King
  • People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them. -- Esther Dyson
  • Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell. -- Carole Katchen
  • "¦ it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn't quite managed. -- Markus Zusak
  • Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in. -- Rita Rudner
  • Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.' -- Pico Iyer
  • When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why. -- Jason Mraz
  • Though people see me in a good light all the time, I turn off my phone and take time to have a good conversation with myself while enjoying nature alone when I'm having a hard time. -- Yunho
  • I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade! -- Phyllis Diller
  • All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them. -- Patricia Polacco
  • Playing in your home city is very special. You feel the support and attention. When everything goes well, it's very great, but when it doesn't, you might as well turn off your phone: the advices seem endless. -- Mikhail Tal
  • Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life. -- Robert Scoble
  • SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary. -- Joe Bob Briggs
  • I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job. -- Jenny Eclair
  • Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it. -- Aaron Zigman
  • Digestion is quickly shut down during stress"¦The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
  • You don't just turn off your feelings for someone, and that's a very hard, sad truth for people. When you're drawn to someone, even if they're not good for you, you feel connected. In a lot of ways. -- Amy B. Harris
  • We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start achieving your goals. -- Bianca Frazier
  • Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available. -- Nathan Myhrvold
  • If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that. -- John Key
  • It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me. -- Marilyn Manson
  • I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?' but I really can't! It's my form of therapy. -- Kellin Quinn
  • The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes. -- Peter Singer
  • In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us. -- Lucy Christopher
  • Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!" -- Gabriel Mann
  • There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm. -- Rob Manuel
  • Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master. -- Gretchen Rubin
  • After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again. -- Kim Edwards
  • If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that. -- Lynn Nottage
  • Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist. -- Madi Diaz
  • After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again. -- Kim Edwards
  • It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying -- Michel Hazanavicius
  • I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve. -- Barack Obama
  • Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface. -- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
  • I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't. -- Kaki King
  • The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed. -- Anne Sexton
  • We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house. -- Candace Cameron
  • We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house. -- Candace Cameron
  • In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others. -- Yehuda Berg
  • It'll be George Michael all over again, Dad mutters darkly to Mum, and I give a sharp intake of breath. That is AGAINST our family code. No one was supposed to mention George Michael ever again. We even turn off Carless Whisper whenever it comes on. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone. -- Ray Bradbury
  • I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. -- Lynn Redgrave
  • I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return. -- Kevin Brooks
  • My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem. -- Taylor Swift
  • Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy. -- Brett Favre
  • I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there. -- Maria Shriver
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