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Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you… — Edward Snowden
I wear mostly black Main Line or T… But the other day, the sun was shining so I wore blue jeans. It caused so much… — Alexander Wang
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could… — Elizabeth Moon
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. — Elizabeth Hurley
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with… — Norman MacCaig
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children… — Dinah Sheridan
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic… — Peter Straub
Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate® training is the most concise. If I start my session at 9.30am, I… — Maureen Lipman
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk,… — Stewart O'Nan
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I… — Haruki Murakami
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made. — Harry S. Truman
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I… — Etty Hillesum
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences.… — John Banville
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in… — Ramona Koval
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen.… — Joanna Lumley
The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of… — Katie Hopkins
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness. — Jenny Offill
Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it… — Richard Florida
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk… — Ronald Reagan
My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach. — Dani Shapiro
I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet! — Karen Walker
Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day. — Roddy Doyle

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