Collect Quotes
447 quotes by 398 authors
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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are…
— Drew Barrymore
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We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect…
— Mario Batali
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We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering…
— John O. Brennan
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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National…
— Smedley Butler
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I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.
— Gloria Allred
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In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews,…
— Robert Mueller
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It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which…
— Charles Ferguson
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I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I…
— Tim Blixseth
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An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and…
— Aaron Koblin
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When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two…
— Jack Dempsey
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
— Karl Pearson
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.…
— Maurice Sendak
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Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess…
— Steve Nash
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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men…
— Alfred Adler
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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes…
— Norman Lear
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good…
— Thomas A. Edison
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