Avoid Quotes · Page 15

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

— Justin Long

There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.

— Peter O'Toole

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

— Annie Lennox

All fighters from the top 10, they avoid me for many years, but I have all the skills.

— Islam Makhachev

We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted…

— David Blunkett

Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?'…

— Cecil Taylor

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

— Salvador Dali

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

— Robert Reich

We have to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must…

— Emmanuel Macron

Avoid needlepoint tweezers as you can easily injure yourself. And very square tweezers can shear the hair versus plucking it out from…

— Anastasia Soare

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard…

— Ridley Scott

Yet exactly what constitutes privilege and disadvantage can be counterintuitive: There is no metric to take into account the casual racism that…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than…

— Alexandra Petri

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The…

— Adam Michnik

There isn't a fight that I'm in that I'm not asking the question, 'What could we have done to avoid this?' Or,…

— Michael Mullen

I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails,…

— Karan Johar

Death is something that I really avoid thinking about. It freaks me out. Of course, it freaks everyone out.

— Aimee Lou Wood

I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to…

— Steve Wozniak

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

— Therese Fowler

I avoid carbohydrates-rich food like rice and rice products. Instead, eat fluids, proteins and fibre-rich food items.

— Navya Nair

Avoid smoking while wearing gold teeth. Just as tobacco use can lead to yellowing of your natural teeth, it can also cause…

— Jesse Rutherford

This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

— Indira Gandhi

I used to watch everybody's stuff, but I found I would get slightly influenced by the other comics. I try to avoid…

— Jim Jefferies

I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before.

— Sasheer Zamata

“Since the advent of bright LED streetlights and car headlights, I avoid driving after dark.”

— Steven Magee

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

— Nawaz Sharif

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

— Mario Monti

People were holding high denomination notes to keep tax unaccounted for money. Some sectors like real estate were using cash to avoid…

— Urjit Patel

“A person who avoids sunlight may eventually develop solar radiation deficiency sickness.”

— Steven Magee

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

— Kamisese Mara

Tables are for putting things on, not putting MVP through, and if I can avoid a steel cage match and ladders and…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.

— Christopher Strachey

When I'm facing an issue or a challenge sometimes, it's easier for me to avoid really facing that or dealing with it,…

— Takashi Miike

I have very sensitive skin and every time I have a facial it makes it worse, so I tend to avoid them.

— Nicola Roberts

“It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the…

— Nabil N. Jamal

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a…

— Raf Simons

Oh, hey! I didn't even recognize you! means I saw you and tried to avoid you, but here you are.

— Nikhil Saluja

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

— Sanjeev Bhaskar