Pockets Quotes - Page 16

• I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.

  Mickey Edwards

  People, Citizens, Voters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Jobs

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• But in a game, you have a pocket forming, your vision is better and - at least for me - I just get a better feel for what I'm doing.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Games, Vision, Feels

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• Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Funny, Money, Giving

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• There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

  Adam Smith

  Art, Government, People

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776)

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• The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Meals, Hoboken

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

  Adam Smith

  People, Littles, States

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.499, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

  Voltaire

  Twenties, Littles, Revolution

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• In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.

  Les Brown

  Heart, Who You Are, Prosperous

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• Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Hands, May

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.234

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• You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.

  Scott Walker

  Uncles, Years, Income

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• I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

  Lily Allen

  Records, Vinyl, Collectors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Your body can be very female, which is something you can do nothing about, but then you can have the soul, the mind and the spirit of both male and female. The women friends I am closest to somehow have this masculine side to them, they shove their hands in their pockets when they walk: I love that side.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hands, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always have a lot of vents and slits in the clothes I design, even inside the pockets so that I can slip my hands inside my clothes and touch my skin. I want to be able to feel my body naked inside my clothes.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hands, Clothes, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cute, Rainbow, Together

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “Scandal In Spring: Number 4 in series”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

  Alan Tudyk

  Shoes, Rolling, Watches

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge."

  Marie Curie

  Glasses, Evil, Annoyed

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• It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

  Paul Auster

  House, Habit, Mines

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.437, Faber & Faber

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• Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.

  Rocco Landesman

  Things In Life, Giving, Important

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• If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.

  Rands

  Sitting, Minutes, Reviews

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• Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.

  Max Planck

  Hands, Would Be, Problem

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• Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket camera and put it on websites. I think that's where the most exciting kind of imagery and content is being recorded and exchanged today.

  Jonas Mekas

  Writing, Thinking, Today

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

  Bill James

  Feet, Rope, Upside Down

  "The Professor of Baseball" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2003.

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• Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really. This has always been about putting the best possible version of the song in the fans hands. It was like selling an artist's painting before he had finished it.

  Daron Malakian

  Song, Artist, Hands

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• Republican candidate George Pataki said his dogs would give him the best endorsement for becoming our next president. Until they hear Chris Christie always carries bacon in his pockets. (Joke's on them, though, he's never going to give them any of that pocket bacon. It's what gets him through long meetings!)

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Giving, Long

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