Mailboxes Quotes - Page 2

• The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.

  Celeste Ng

  Differences, People, Saws

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Eye, Mind Freedom, People

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

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• Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.

  Neal Stephenson

  Past, Phones, People

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

  Mary Karr

  Inspire, Desire, Week

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• Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, do you?" "I didn't even think you liked me all that much," said Simon. "Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house a night and throw up in his mailbox." "I'm pretty sure that's not it

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Thinking, Car

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!

  Bobby Jindal

  Jobs, Proof, States

  "Confederate statues vandalized nationwide". "The Five" with Eric Bolling and Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

  Matt Welch

  Reform, Campaigns, Magazines

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• I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

  Pau Gasol

  Bullets, Way, Bricks

  ""I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis": an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurley, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.

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• Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

  Willie Stargell

  Butterfly, Knuckleballs, Hiccups

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• When I started to run, I would run a mile and then walk a mile and kept building up as time went on. If you are running on the street, go one mailbox or one house further each day. It also helps to build up your endurance!

  Heidi Klum

  Running, Building Up, House

  "Heidi Klum Shares Her Spring Workout and Diet Secrets (and Guess What: Cheeseburgers Are Allowed)". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. March 25, 2014.

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• RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

  Cameron Crowe

  Publication, Remains

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• I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

  Jamie Zawinski

  Focus, Doe, Looks

  "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming". Book by Peter Seibel, September 16, 2009.

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• I live in Los Angeles. It's a very liberal city, but it's so hypocritical in what it's liberal about. You can be driving down Hollywood Boulevard, see a guy in lipstick and high heels wearing a fur coat masturbating into a mailbox. People giving him a hard time as they drive by: Hey, is that real fur? Of course not! That's sick!

  Dana Gould

  Real, Hard Times, Cities

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• You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.

  Paul Reiser

  Morning, Cash, Littles

  "No longer 'Mad About You'" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. May 24, 1999.

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• Paste magazine has served as a tremendous window into culture for my house. I can think of no other publication that provides such critical yet entertaining thoughts on music, movies, books and gaming as Paste. My mailbox would be a dark place indeed without it.

  Derek Webb

  Book, Dark, Thinking

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• That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court, with fecal matter smeared across our faces. They wrapped it in wax paper so that when I received it I'd get the full impact of the message. Though I haven't gotten anything quite that original lately, there's still never a dull moment in my mailbox.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Impact, Matter

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• I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Museums, Cities

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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