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Quotes About Trap

It had been a marihuana party. My wife and I tried to explain to her what this meant. That marihuana was the bait, and dope addiction the trap.
~ Jack Webb
We spend vast amounts of our time an emotional energy in learning how not to be natural and in eluding the trap of our own nature and it therefore becomes very difficult to know exactly what is meant when we speak of the unnatural. It is not possible to have it both ways, to use nature at one time as the final arbiter of human conduct and at another to oppose her as angrily as we do.
~ James Baldwin
Now, as then, we find ourselves bound, first without, then within, by the nature of our categorization. And escape is not effected through a bitter railing against this trap; it is as though this very striving were the only motion needed to spring the trap upon us. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
~ James Baldwin
All roles are dangerous. The world tends to trap and immobilize you in the role you play; and it is not always easy—in fact, it is always extremely hard—to maintain a kind of watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.
~ James Baldwin
It is simple to catch a man, all you need to know is the right bait.
~ James Clavell
It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon.
~ Steve Aoki
Despite fashioning myself a very unconventional lifestyle with my music, I had ended up in a really conventional situation. I was also guilty of becoming a people-pleaser, which is absolutely exhausting and not a sustainable way of living. It can be so damaging to fall into that trap, especially in close relationships.
~ KT Tunstall
Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.
~ Conor McGregor
Journalists are out to trap me with my underwear showing.
~ David Jason
The best way to catch a bee is using its own honey.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.
~ Bob Marley
Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap.
~ Terri Guillemets
What we have to do is trap them into consumerism. Carry out enough propaganda and teasers and so on to make freed slaves feel they've got to have these commodities. They go to the company store and they get them, they're in debt, and pretty soon they're trapped—the slave economy's back.
~ Noam Chomsky
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
~ Noam Chomsky
the world is the cradle and your trap.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Il mondo" dice Brandy "è la tua culla e la tua trappola.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is a trap. If I say, Oh, yeah, I roll rubbers onto new dry erections all the time, I'll get the slut lecture from my father. But if I tell them, No, we'll get to spend Christmas Day practicing to protect me from fruit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
So why, then, can't Ackbar shake the feeling that once again they are about to fall into a trap?
~ Chuck Wendig
Ackbar interjects: "But we also must recognize the Empire's ability to play the long game. Our victory over Endor was fortunate, but the Empire orchestrated that trap with great patience.
~ Chuck Wendig
The Ravager is not the last weapon. Nor do I even control it. There is … another." His face twitches. "You don't mean …" "I do mean. He's not dead." "But you said he was." "I lied." She shrugs. "This was … all his plan. Wasn't it? I should've seen it. I fell for a trap. We all fell for your trap.
~ Chuck Wendig
railroads fell into the trap of letting the product define the market they were in, rather than the job customers were hiring them to do. They
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Flesh is a trap, and magic sets us free.
~ Clive Barker
This is a trap many companies fall into. Lacking a holistic understanding of strategy
~ W. Chan Kim