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Quotes About Shutdown

I love what I do so much, and I have a very acute understanding of how I work as a person, so if I'm afraid, I shut down and can't do anything. If I'm overwhelmed, I shut down and can't do anything.
~ Anya Taylor-Joy
I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4
~ Kim Harrison
As the Coronavirus spread from Wuhan, China, to the United States, most governors quickly acquiesced to the media's demand that they force a governmental shutdown of their states in order to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed.
~ Mollie Hemingway
Do you remember it when your body shuts down and, for the life of you, you can barely squeak out a word or two?
~ Terrence Real
The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'
~ Mike Leach
Pessimists thought this shutdown would kill baseball entirely. It did not. But it does represent the point where baseball's past became more desirable than baseball's future, an inversion that would never really reverse itself.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.
~ Mick Mulvaney
There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.
~ Cory Gardner
Nothing. But who shuts down a machine with five years uptime? That's like euthanizing your grandmother.
~ Cory Doctorow
If the clicker became useless in grown men's hands, no games to watch, no highlights shown, ESPN left with only test patterns and re-runs of Rudy, wouldn't the indignation level be a whole lot higher? If sports, all sports, all levels, were shut down, wouldn't the big clock be ticking a lot louder? Wouldn't John Boehner be calling the President and vice versa? Wouldn't Ted Cruz have to shut up in a hurry?
~ Leigh Montville
I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
~ Evan Osnos
Well, that's it. I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a state of pleasantly welcome existence. The ChronoGuard has shut itself down and time travel is as it should be: technically, logically, and theoretically...impossible. Good thing, too, reply Landon. It always made my head ache. In fact, I was thinking of doing self help book for science-fiction novelists eager to write about time travel. It would consist of a single word: Don't.
~ Jasper Fforde
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.
~ George Clooney
At some point this blackmail has got to be stopped, and blackmail is what this is. The media and the Democrats threatening the Republicans: if you don't pass this bill the way we want, we're gonna blame you for the shutdown of the department or the shutdown of the government. That's blackmail.
~ Unknown
Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had a vegetable oil refinery; we have shut it down. We had a tomato-based processing plant; we have shut it down.
~ Aliko Dangote
In the summer of 2009, a heat wave across France led to a shortage in cooling waters, forcing one-third of the nuclear power plants in the country to shut down.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
If a corporation shuts down and leaves, liberals don't care. It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain, they love to criticize them and it's got people in need, people out of work.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Subway shut down, people on the tracks... I'm, like, ding! Amy and Dan, no-brainer! - Nellie
~ Peter Lerangis
Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) says as government shutdown looms. pic.twitter.com/xBIT6fYG9H — CBS News (@CBSNews) January 19, 2018
~ Unknown
The systems of constructs are inherently inferior to advanced bots, but you aren't stupid. Yeah, well, fuck you, too, I thought, and initiated a shutdown sequence.
~ Martha Wells
When overstimulated, the introvert's mind can shut down, saying, No more input, please. It goes dark.
~ Unknown
Many Japanese kids don't express themselves. They would rather express themselves in a fantasy world and through passive-agressive behavior. They go on behavior strike, they go into emotional shutdown. This is one of the ways of expressing a Japanese way of life. But in acting this way, these children are simply mirroring the behavior they see among adult Japanese, especially those from elite or privileged backgrounds.
~ Unknown
So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
~ Monica Lewinsky
wild animal would following a frightful encounter with a predator. What ethologists call tonic immobility—the paralysis and physical/emotional shutdown that characterize the universal experience of helplessness in the face of mortal danger—comes to dominate the person's life and functioning.
~ Peter A. Levine