Pockets Quotes - Page 24

• I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

  Jay-Z

  Notebook, Running, Writing

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• Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Opportunity, Goal

  "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.

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• You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Pension Plans, Risk, Acting

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• If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King.

  Queen Latifah

  Brother, Jobs, Kings

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

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• I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.

  John Lydon

  Gratitude, Baby, Careers

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  Ed Markey

  Oil, People, Tipping

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

  Chris Martin

  Mean, Kids, Years

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• When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

  Marissa Mayer

  Night, Thinking, Glasses

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• I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

  Phil McGraw

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, School, Math

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

  Moliere

  Literature, Bears, Praise

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• Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

  Ashley Montagu

  Swag, Cities, Chicago

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Needs, Caution, Ifs

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• The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

  Rick Danko

  Retirement, Play, Together

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• I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a Win-Win situation really; I get an extra 25 dollars in my pocket AND another portrait for my bedroom.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, People, Portraits

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• I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Blood, Practice, Play

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• Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Baby, Children, Learning

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• The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, People, Bully

  Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

  Tom Harkin

  Vaccines, Our Veterans, Giving

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• You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

  Darrell Royal

  Fall, Thinking, Lakes

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

  Big L

  Crazy, Book, Crooks

  Song: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

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• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Museums, People

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Want, Should

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.520, Simon and Schuster

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• So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Cells, Blood, Years

  "Q&A: Kurzweil on tech as a double-edged sword". Interview with Natasha Lomas, www.cnet.com. November 19, 2008.

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