Boxes Quotes - Page 17

• Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Taken, Men, Animal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

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• I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.

  Lily Tomlin

  Stars, Fun, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• For me, box step-ups and power clean [exercises] is by far the best.

  Greg Rutherford

  Exercise, Steps, Clean

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• People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.

  Jillian Hervey

  People, Dancing, Trying

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• With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.

  David Gordon Green

  Years, Ideas, Yesterday

  Interview with George Ducker, believermag.com. November 1, 2006.

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• [My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

  Rex Smith

  Father, Eye, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Twilight, Thinking, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.

  George Tahdooahnippah

  Uncles, Father, Native American

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• To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Rocks, Punk

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

  Sunny Leone

  Freedom Of Speech, Trying, Ugly

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• The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Years, Clothes

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

  George Nolfi

  Want, Kind, Genre

  "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.

  Mel Gibson

  Other Worlds, Cnn, People

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.

  Jack Nicholson

  Jobs, Office, Trying

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• TV is a different animal. I belong on that little screen. The big silver screen, not so much, 'cause I've seen my face up close when it's 25-feet tall. I'm okay as long as you keep me in that little box.

  Steve Harvey

  Animal, Feet, Long

  "Steve Harvey: The 'Think Like a Man'". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 16, 2012.

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• That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us."

  Howard Zinn

  Government, Ideas, Interesting

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• This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.

  Neil Young

  Thinking, Race, Addiction

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

  Rihanna

  Love Is, Great Love, Feelings

  Song: S&M

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• I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Views

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• I was on a bus once, it was in the middle of the night, and I had a box of crackers and a can of Easy Cheese. It was dark, and it was a surprise how much cheese I had applied on each cracker. That's why they should have a glow-in-the-dark version of Easy Cheese. It's not like the product has any integrity to begin with. If you buy a room-temperature cheese that you squeeze out of a can, you probably won't get mad because it glows in the dark too.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Integrity, Humor

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• I had a box of Ritz crackers, and on the back of the box, they had all these suggestions for what to put on top of the Ritz. Try it with cheese. Try it with peanut butter. Come on, man, they're crackers, that's why I got them. I like crackers! I didn't buy them because they're little edible plates!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I don't want to have my face on the cover of a Wheaties box. I wanna have my face on the cover of a Rice Krispies box. "Snap, Krackle, Mitch and Pop"!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

  Lauryn Hill

  War, Reading, Water

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• My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in.

  Hoodie Allen

  Unique, Taste, Eclectic

  Source: www.controltheriot.co.uk

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• I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Daughter, Guy, Wish

  "Stallone's daughters make history as first Miss Golden Globe sister act". www.foxnews.com. January 5, 2017.

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