Pockets Quotes - Page 21

• Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

  Brandi Carlile

  Bears, Burden

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2015.

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• We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.

  David Jeremiah Barron

  Zoos, Animal, Habitat

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• There's no unicorns that pop out the ceiling and no glitter that pops out of my pocket. It's just regular people in the studio doing what we do.

  B.J. The Chicago Kid

  People, Ceilings, Glitter

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow the money and the more you'll be able to see that payments for mineral rights in poor countries actually go to the people who need it, and don't get put into a kleptocrat's pocket. Transparency is terribly important for us.

  Michael Elliott

  Country, Rights, People

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• Raising the federal minimum wage won't just put more money in the pocket of low-income families - it also means they spend more money at the businesses in their neighborhoods. [Donald] Trump's against that as well.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Low Income, Minimum Wage

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Gigi Does It show] flew so drastically under the radar. I kind of hold it in my back pocket as this thing that I got the opportunity to do that no one really knows I did and that I'm really proud of.

  David Krumholtz

  Opportunity, Doe, Proud

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Polite

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• The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

  John Warren Kindt

  Vegas, Gambling, Casinos

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• I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are adept at snatching things off a person as they ride by, but I personally have never seen it. Funny though, I don't hear folks talk about pick pockets but it's happened to me twice. Beware of that cute little sweetheart and stay away from those talented little hands.

  Doug Rice

  Cute, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• Jamaica is one of the most musically influential nations in the world. Throughout the entire globe, there are pockets that are constantly in touch with what goes on in the dancehall community, from Germany to Japan, to different parts of Africa like Ghana.

  Kreesha Turner

  Ghana, Japan, Jamaica

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I don't need no extra hands in my pocket.

  Donnis

  Hands, Needs, Extras

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• It's true that non-ionizing radiation lacks the power to have damage. But its damage seems to come from its modulated signal. So every 900 milliseconds, if you have a cellphone in your pocket, it's getting half of that radiation which is getting into you as it seeks the signal from the tower.

  Devra Davis

  Towers, Half, Radiation

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.

  Sam Heughan

  Smell, Childhood, Comforting

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Book, Church

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• The fact is that you can be a Nazi living in a little trailer in the middle of Montana and as awful as everything you stand for is, you're basically an angry guy in a shack. Scientology, on the other hand, is a multi-billion dollar institution with tentacles that reach into lots of countries. I don't think it's as powerful as many people think it is, but compared to the sorts of people I've dealt with, it is a force to be reckoned with. It has global influence and very very deep pockets.

  Louis Theroux

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  "Louis Theroux discusses My Scientology Movie, his first feature film". Interview with John Nugent, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.

  Luke Evans

  Flying, Bucks, Knows

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I'm a trained actor and I can always tone it down, I can always simplify the work I've done. But if I'm asked to bring the nuanced and complicated work, I'll have it in my pocket, and all that information helps.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Actors, Done, Information

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

  Ani DiFranco

  Moral Fiber, Giving, Scary

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets.

  Elijah Cummings

  People, Decision, Made

  Source: www.npr.org

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• All you have to do is follow the money and if you follow the money, it leads right back to Donald Trump's pockets.

  Elijah Cummings

  Trump, Ifs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Comparing what the Democrats offer to what the Republicans offer is like comparing the money I have in my pocket to what Bill Gates has in his.

  Jackie Mason

  Bills, Republican, Compare

  Source: spectator.org

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• The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with the needs and concerns of the great majority of the population. One finds them everywhere.

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Creativity, Focus

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Wages, Cash, Raises

  Source: www.salon.com

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