Paper Quotes - Page 8

• I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

  Xavi

  Football, Papers, Knows

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• I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

  Grace Helbig

  School, Giving, Signatures

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• I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

  Gerry Adams

  Sunday, Years, News

  "Gerry Adams: 'I'm happy with who I am ... it's very important to be a subversive'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

  Raimund Abraham

  Office, Desire, Needs

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• Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Matter

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

  Chip Kidd

  Book, Technology, Sound

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• Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

  Antonio Damasio

  Running, Writing, Hands

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• I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

  Edward Witten

  Trying, Figures, Tendencies

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• The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

  Robert Scheer

  Prize

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• I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Ohio, Years, Shoes

  "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

  Troy Polamalu

  Pieces, Lifetime, Made

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• Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

  Tove Jansson

  Giving, Feelings, Gold

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• The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

  Ayn Rand

  Jail, Rights, Government

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• I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

  Rodney Brooks

  Ideas, Half, World

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• The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

  James Harrington

  Men, Hands, Law

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• One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Cells, Wisconsin, Firsts

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Bruce Lipton, cell biologist and author of "The Biology of Belief," says it's our beliefs, not our DNA, that control our biology". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. November 14, 2005.

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• To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

  Sheila Nevins

  Reviews, Papers, Bad Reviews

  "HBO Docs President Sheila Nevins Talks West Memphis Three, New Oscar Rules, Sundance, Abramovic". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2012.

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• The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

  Dexter Scott King

  Government, Tape, Materials

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• Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

  Kimberly Willis Holt

  Reading, Twelve, Becoming

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• Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

  Jerry Lewis

  Loyalty, Hands, Giving

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• I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

  Simon Van Booy

  Boys, People, Lines

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.24, Oneworld Publications

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• When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

  Simon Van Booy

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

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• You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.

  Jay Leno

  Home, Blow, Wind

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• Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

  Joan Miro

  Fall, Drawing, Color

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• The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

  Anthony Browne

  Drawing, Battle, Littles

  "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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