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• If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

  Giordano Bruno

  Coats, Firsts, Crooked

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• Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

  St. Jerome

  Keys, Play, Knowing

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• Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

  James David Barber

  Pie, Trying, These Days

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• There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, Years, People

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• As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great strong masses: the buttons are lost, but the sitter remains; the sitter is lost, but the shadow remains; the shadow is lost, but the picture remains. And that, night cannot efface from the painter's imagination.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Night, Light

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• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

  Samuel Foote

  Humorous, Cutting, Garden

  Quoted in Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy (1825).

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• I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

  Sky Ferreira

  Hockey, Jeans, Jersey

  "Sky Ferreira Shares Her Coachella Packing Essentials". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. April 9, 2013.

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• You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

  Willem Dafoe

  Roles, Stories, Pushing

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• You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

  Charlie Dent

  Bills, Position

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• Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

  Barry Diller

  Ideas, Miracle, World

  CEO Forum: Media mogul Diller on Twitter, Ticketmaster, etc., www.usatoday.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

  Jason Bateman

  Careers, Chance

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• We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).

  Douglas Hofstadter

  New York, Numbers, America

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• I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

  Rila Fukushima

  Weakness, Collecting

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• I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Nice, Thinking, Reset Button

  "Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein takes your questions". live.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

  Thom Browne

  Simple, Men, Cities

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• So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

  Michael Ondaatje

  War, Yellow, Nurse

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.178, Vintage

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• The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Names, Wings, Rose

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1971). “Collected poems”, Not Avail

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• Some things just push a man's buttons. This goes beyond what we say-and into how we say it.

  Shaunti Feldhahn

  Communication, Men

  FaceBook post by Shaunti Feldhahn from Sep 02, 2016

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• Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Environmental, Doe, Global Warming

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• Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

  Minor White

  Photography, Responsibility, Skills

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• Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

  Marianne Williamson

  Capacity, Situation

  "A return to love". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.

  Mark Mobius

  Panic, Patient, Willing

  Mark Mobius (2012). “The Little Book of Emerging Markets: How To Make Money in the World's Fastest Growing Markets”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Light, Exclamation Points

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 17, 2014

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• What I saw was just one eye
  In the dawn as I was going:
  A bird can carry all the sky
  In that little button glowing.
  Never in my life I went
  So deep into the firmament.

  Harold Monro

  Eye, Glowing, Sky

  Harold Monro, “The Bird At Dawn”

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• Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.

  Zeena Schreck

  Sex, Fear, Atoms

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