Checks Quotes - Page 31

• I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.

  Brit Marling

  Phones, Brain, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Reality, Russia, Suffering

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way.

  Too $hort

  Intelligent, People, Giving

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• Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."

  Ronnie Shakes

  Sex, Doe, Dollars

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• God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

  Dar Williams

  Silly, Looks, Records

  Song: Alleluia, Album: The Honesty Room

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• When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket.

  Nina Dobrev

  Eye, Bags, Noise

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• I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

  David Mamet

  Hate, Mail, Computer

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• I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

  Bill Gates

  Focus, Use, Calendars

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• People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

  Mick Jagger

  People, Facts, Print

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• I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

  Charley Pride

  Long, Might, Way

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• When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Giving, Ego

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• When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him?

  Woody Allen

  Men, Car, Doe

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• Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Manhattan, Dinner, Modern

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• New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Pyramid Schemes, Pyramids

  Paul Reiser (2012). “Babyhood”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.

  Paula Poundstone

  Cooking, Noodles, Sticks

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• I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.

  Bob Newhart

  Important, Tonight, Week

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

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• Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a semi-automatic. Now, for years I've been pressing for stricter regulations on cameras, especially around our elected officials. Too many political lives have been cut short by some crazed shooter.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, Cutting, Years

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• What is eternity? You're on the checkout line at a supermarket. There are seven people in front of you. They are all old. They all have two carts and coupons for every item. They are all paying by check. None of them have ID. It's the checkout girl's first day on the job. She doesn't speak any English. Take away fifteen minutes from that, and you begin to get an idea of what eternity is.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Jobs, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You're gonna check my computer records? Is that important? I don't think the government needs to know how I feel about teen Asian sluts in order to fight terrorism.

  Greg Giraldo

  Fighting, Thinking, Government

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• I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives, destroying lives everyday. And I know that you know it's a little thing called Chupacabra.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Everyday, Littles

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• You might be a redneck if you have to check in the bottom of your shoe for change so you can get Grandma a new plug of tobacco.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Grandma, Redneck, Shoes

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• You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Rats

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• A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Cancer, Men, Doctors

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• Who's the president on the $100 bill? I don't know. I don't need to know because I don't use cash. I only use travelers checks.

  Chelsea Handler

  President, Needs, Use

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• I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.

  Carolyn Hax

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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