Collecting Quotes - Page 4

• When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.

  Vandana Shiva

  Gmos, Problem, Royalty

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• While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.

  Wooden Wand

  Good Mood, Melody, Ready

  Interview With John Foster, brightestyoungthings.com. March 11, 2013.

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• To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.

  Doyle Brunson

  Games, Worry, Police

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story (Part I)". Interview with Nolan Dalla, mobile.pokerschoolonline.com. 2008.

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• Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also

  Laozi

  People, Causes, Taxes

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1986). “Tao teh king”, World Book

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• An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting.

  Richard Lewontin

  Butterfly, Unique, Long

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• My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

  Gianni Versace

  Dream, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Taken, Museums, Data

  Journal of the American Statistical Association On a Classification of the Problems of Statistical Inference Volume 37, Number 218, June 1942 (p. 173)

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• For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it "collaborative filtering" or something technical, but the impulse is the same - gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change skeptics: render them totally obsolete.

  DJ Spooky

  Clouds, Records, Mixtapes

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable to develop their own signatures by collecting themselves. On the other hand, though, I think we should also celebrate the fact that there is a lot of art that lives outside of, or on the outskirts of, the art market - and it is doing quite well.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

  Micah Lexier

  Keys, Childhood, Used

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Sports, Father, Passion

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

  Isabel Allende

  Collecting Things, Half, Firsts

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• The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Dresses, Nonsense

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

  PJ Harvey

  Collecting Things, Littles, Little Things

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taxation, Taxes, Aim

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Hell, Social

  Sleeper, www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

  Ray Bradbury

  Civilization, Imagination, Important

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• I really learned a lot from collecting clothes because I got to go back into the history of fashion and fashion photography and jewelry. It changed how I felt about fashion and about what I did forever because I used to look a little bit down on myself for it.

  Stephanie Seymour

  Photography, Fashion, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Light, Example

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

  Dennis Prager

  Order, Europe, California

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• The president finally explained why he sat in that classroom on 9/11 for 7 minutes after he was told the country was under attack. He said he was 'collecting his thoughts.' What a time to start a new hobby.'

  Bill Maher

  Country, President, Hobbies

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• Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

  David F. Swensen

  Investing, Return, Mutual Fund

  "Yale’s Swensen Says Index Funds Best Plan for Most Investors" by Kelly Bit, www.bloomberg.com. January 31, 2012.

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• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Government, Data, Games

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• This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.

  Stephen King

  Brain, Be Kind, Hats

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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