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• I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Stories, Tonight, Kevin

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• I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Morning, Writing, Two

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• I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

  Gary Panter

  Inspiration, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

  Keith Rabois

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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• The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.

  David Burnett

  Home, Cameras, Sitting

  Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

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• Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Add, Want, Recognition

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.

  Travis Pastrana

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Source: dirtaction.com.au

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• Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.

  James Arthur

  Thinking, Ikea, Together

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

  John E. Jones III

  Office, Lawyer, Court

  Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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• For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED to shut off the computer, push myself back from my desk and escape the studio space to let possible ideas percolate in my gray matter before committing anything to paper or digital imagery as a sketch or a concept.

  Jeff Fisher

  Ideas, Space, Gray Matter

  Source: justcreative.com

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• When you win an award from the Grammys, it means a lot 'cause it's voted on by 100% by the people. It's not like some old guy sitting at a desk picking. It's doesn't work like that. It's voted on by your peers in the music industry.

  Paul Wall

  Mean, Winning, Awards

  "Interview: Paul Wall And Chamillionaire Talk Reunion Tour And Moving Beyond The Beef". Interview with Maurice Bobb, www.complex.com. March 24, 2010.

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• This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to do. It's all about the inner, rather than the outer. Whether people like or don't like my work, read it or don't read it, it's just been a gift from the gods that I've been able to sit at my desk for the last almost 50 years and do the things I've wanted to do.

  Paul Auster

  Years, People, Want

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning.

  Scott Adams

  Coffee, Thinking, Doctors

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• I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?

  Michael Moore

  Book, Fall, Cutting

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• After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Typewriters, Talking

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

  Robert Anderson

  Inspiration, Writing, Waiting

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• I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird feeling between my legs and I had no idea what it was. I didn't know girls masturbated. I never touched myself or anything.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, School, Boys

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Glasses, Talking

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• Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems. The monetary system is a legal contrivance. Property, not money, is real wealth. It's physical, not legal.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Real, Answers

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• I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Lucky, Doom, Screenwriting

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• Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.

  Natalie Massenet

  Creating, Iphone, Shoes

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• It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, New York, Mistake

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• CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk.

  David Letterman

  Mistake, Leaving, Dumb

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• Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

  Helen Exley

  Thrill, Proud, Funny Business

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