Collecting Quotes

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  Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Liberty, Taxation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Offering

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.677, Penguin

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• I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

  Julie Andrews

  Lovely, Ceramics, Would Be

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mistake, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

  Ursula Andress

  Giving, Joy, Satisfaction

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• I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

  Harlan Howard

  Emotion

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• Collecting is my passion.

  Ursula Andress

  Passion, My Passion

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• By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

  Richard Lugar

  Opportunity, Agriculture, Use

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• Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Cds, Mind

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• Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Fire, Water, Trying

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• Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Delight, Pages

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• I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

  Thelonious Monk

  Stupid, Counting

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• What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Nature, Phrases, Pursuit

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• When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, Knives, Naked

  "Fictional character: Insp. Harry Callahan". "Dirty Harry", 1971.

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• Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

  Charles Saatchi

  Giving, Decision, Advice

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Stones, Tests

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• The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

  Burt Reynolds

  Art, Home, House

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• Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

  John Shadegg

  Retirement, Thinking, Usa

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• On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.

  Jay Roach

  Editors, Track, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

  John Shadegg

  Reality, Payroll Tax, Numbers

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• A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.

  Bobby Flay

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

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• These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

  Thomas Frank

  Focus, Computer, Internet

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• It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

  Dave Barry

  Would Be, Useless, Stamp Collecting

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• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Witty, Humorous, Science

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

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• Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.

  J. G. Ballard

  Funny, Best Love, Selfish

  "Cocaine Nights". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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