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A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the… — Peter Medawar
One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into… — John Jeremiah Sullivan
Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life. — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap,… — Ted Trueblood
I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence… — Bill Dixon
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to… — Aldrich Ames
Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector — Frank Serpico
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to… — Walter Benjamin
If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how… — Dorothy Draper
We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires… — Albert Hadley
When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. — Jay Leno
To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata. — David Weinberger
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they… — Austin Kleon
I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul. — Sonia Sanchez
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors. — Helen Fisher
I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool. — Craig McCracken
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense… — Susan Sontag
Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it. — Eli Broad
A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. — Lucien Febvre
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to… — Kit Williams
Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. — Isaac Marion
Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy. — Mitch McConnell
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive,… — Michael Gambon
When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin… — Ronnie Wood

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