Department Quotes - Page 40

• I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Office, Unemployment

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• I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Trying, Different, Film

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• Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

  Alan Watts

  Religion, Whole

  Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.8, Tuttle Publishing

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• I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

  Arsene Wenger

  Team, Player, Thinking

  "How do world class coaches and the worlds best clubs view Youth player Development?". Interview with Alfred Galustian, challengefc.org. May 02, 2015.

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• We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Fire, House, Looks

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.

  Ron Paul

  Agency, Government, Needs

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.431, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

  Tom Robbins

  Kmart, People, Heaven

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.11, Bantam

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• But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

  Douglas Adams

  Light, Filing Cabinet, Doors

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.28, Del Rey

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• Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

  Christopher Moore

  Hate, Kids, People

  "A Dirty Job". Book by Christopher Moore, 2006.

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• Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Writing, Intelligent

  "Player Piano". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1952.

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• Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, American Universities, University

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

  Alan Moore

  Marketing, Phrases, Idiot

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• It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

  Banksy

  People, Police, Feelings

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• As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

  Banksy

  Art, Museums, I Can

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• One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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• Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

  Randy Pausch

  Careers, Computer, Academic

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

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  Ram Dass

  School, People, Psychology

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• California, the department store state.

  Raymond Chandler

  California, Dignity, States

  1949 The Little Sister, ch.13.

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• The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Witty, Lying, Hands

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Christmas, Brother

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• Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.61, Vintage

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• The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Brain, Soup, Motion Pictures

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

  Lauren Weisberger

  Fashion, Fire, Blood

  Lauren Weisberger (2003). “The Devil Wears Prada”, p.99, Broadway Books

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• If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

  Scott Adams

  Funny Work, Ideas, Looks

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