Collections Quotes - Page 32

• The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cutting

  "Kobe Bryant On The Black Mamba". Interview with Benjamin Clymer, www.askmen.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

  David Byrne

  Song, Artist, Cds

  "David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2007.

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• I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.

  Lauren Conrad

  Pieces

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• 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt.

  Simon Cowell

  Stars, Children, War

  "Simon Cowell is a Very Odd Boy" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.

  Sloane Crosley

  Eye, Grandmother, Adults

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• Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

  John Deacon

  Song, Writing, Groups

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• I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Dream, Thinking, People

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• 'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Stories, Genre

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• I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

  Junot Diaz

  Facts, Doe, Attention

  "Junot Diaz ‘This Is How You Lose Her:’ WSJ". Interview with Allison Isaac, mosaicmagazine.org. July 18, 2012.

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• I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Order, Years

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• A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

  Carly Fiorina

  Track, Ego, Dynamics

  "A very bad business". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

  Bobby Flay

  Trying, Tables, Rooms

  Bobby Flay (2007). “Bobby Flay's Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire!”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Team, Favorite Day, Design

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• I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Play, Musical

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• The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

  Brian Greene

  Beautiful, Want, Explanation

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• For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

  Kirk Hammett

  Devil, Growing, Stuff

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• On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

  Eva Herzigova

  Birthday, My Birthday, Milan

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• But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Islands, Doe, Kind

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Two, Office

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.279

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• I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

  Jay-Z

  Mom, House, Soul

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• The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

  Paul Kane

  Book, Mean, Night

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• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Dialogue, Non Stop

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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  People, Scare, Dolls

  "Fashion diary" by Rachel Holmes and Kate Carter, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2008.

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• A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Air, Ideas, Work Out

  Interview With Sigrid Agren, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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