Files Quotes - Page 2

• One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

  James Buchan

  Country, Police, Historical

  "Khomeini's Ghost" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

  John Irving

  Memories, Thinking, Monsters

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.46, Random House

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• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  Ralph Nader

  Technology, Data, People

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• I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Pieces, Computer

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• I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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

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• If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

  Tony Benn

  Years, Library, Paper

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• There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

  James Longstreet

  Blow, Broken, Effort

  James Longstreet, Civil War Classics (2015). “From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of the Civil War in America”, p.440, Diversion Books

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• My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Trying, Needs

  "Barbara Kingsolver: How I Write". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.

  Jason Mraz

  Rain, Guitar, Bird

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Use

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• The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Rights, Issues

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• The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file; I don't know what instrument he was playing them on; I know nothing about his section of the sound of the piece, and then when I'm sitting on trains I do a lot of train travel I turn them into pieces of music. And I love to do that; it's my favorite hobby.

  Brian Eno

  Brother, Favorite Hobby, Games

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, What If, Rust

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.18, Ravenio Books

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• We have persistent objects, they're called files.

  Ken Thompson

  Persistent, Objects

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• I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape

  Joan Didion

  Block, Different, Fiction

  "National Book Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings.

  Mark Cuban

  Morning, Email, Queues

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Moral, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Suffering, Purpose

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• New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, People, Rock N Roll

  Source: the-talks.com

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• For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the studio in fact. From these files I can quite often tell what kind of set up made the tracks. For the music lover in me, vinyl is more woosey, richer, more alive, more real, more imperfect and somehow becoming more like life itself. But I don't prefer it per se. The mastering engineer in me always loves to hear it as it was made.

  Chris McCormack

  Real, Giving, Track

  Source: www.hkclubbing.com

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• No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Army, Men

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• Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers.

  B. C. Forbes

  Attitude, Sight, Interesting

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• Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless there is a great national need to do everything possible to bring home to the rank and file of the people that all employers and all wealthy men are not grinding, mercenary, selfish skinflints, but that many of them take delight in doing helpful things for others ... Shortcomings of employers are constantly paraded. Why not let the public become acquainted with the better side which most present-day employers possess?

  B. C. Forbes

  Selfish, Mistake, Home

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• When I first moved to Los Angeles I came down there on a wing and a prayer in a way. I had about six weeks worth of money to make it there and that was just from doing a couple of episodes of the X-Files just to finance that trip. I got there and it is either you got to hit it or you got to go and, thankfully, I found a job.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Jobs, Prayer, Couple

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

  Timothy Murphy

  Records, Paper, Rooms

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