Mail Quotes

• If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

  Bill Gates

  Internet, Ifs

  "The day Bill Gates didn't call me a communist". Interview with Philip Elmer-DeWitt, David S. Jackson, fortune.com. June 28, 2008.

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• Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

  Alison Gopnik

  Phones, Phone Calls, Faster

  Alison Gopnik (2016). “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children”, p.229, Macmillan

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• Alongside my "no email" policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Writing, People

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings

  Meg Ryan

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• At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

  Marian McPartland

  House, Risk, Would Be

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

  Katie Holmes

  World, Computer, Internet

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• I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

  Joseph Epstein

  Phones, Two, Lunch

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

  Dave Chappelle

  Work Out, Next Level, Levels

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• Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Popcorn, Tape, Pieces

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• Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

  James Fallows

  Anger, Writing, Enemy

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• Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other’s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.

  Antonin Artaud

  Fall, Mean, Exercise

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.79, Grove Press

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• If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

  Anna Quindlen

  Elude You, Elude Us, Want Something

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.260, Ballantine Books

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• You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Talking

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

  Robin Trower

  Thinking, Fans, Sensible

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• Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Respect, Self Esteem, Coats

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1501, Jazzybee Verlag

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• At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Hate, Thinking, Drummer

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

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• Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

  Audrey Meadows

  Fans, Different, Matter

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• My mother answers all my fan mail.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Fans, Answers

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• Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Mom, Thinking

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• In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

  Victoria Pratt

  Girl, Role Models, Mind

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• I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

  David Wilkerson

  Writing, Pieces, Messages

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• Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Gentleman

  On Active Service in Peace and War ch. 7 (1948). Stimson was explaining his action, while secretary of state in 1929, in closing the State Department's codebreaking office. The 1948 book, coauthored with McGeorge Bundy, is the earliest known appearance of this quotation. Louis Kruh, in his article "Stimson, the Black Chamber, and the 'Gentleman's Mail Quote," Cryptologia, Apr. 1988, concludes that these words accurately represented Stimson's feelings in 1929 but that "whether he also said it the

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• As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

  Wietse Venema

  Agents, Lines, Today

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• I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

  Marian McPartland

  Hate, Enough

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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