Tweet Quotes

• I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Grandma, Pages, Facebook Page

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• Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

  Benito Mussolini

  Inspirational, Funny, Sheep

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Sheep, Years

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• You are what you tweet.

  The Million Dollar Homepage

  Social Media

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• Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

  Germany Kent

  Deep Meaning

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• Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Sonnet

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• Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much.

  Adrian Peterson

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Adrian Peterson from Oct 11, 2013

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• People ask me why I don't tweet. Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

  Blake Lively

  People, Sick, Ask Me

  "Blake Lively's Cover-Shoot Photo Gallery" by Alyssa Shapiro, www.glamour.com.

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• I really don't have time "to Twitter," it's not something that should grab your day. That's a big misconception, actually, about the whole service. You don't go out of your way to tweet, you just post when you've got something. Hopefully, not while you're driving. It complements your life more than takes over your life.

  Chris Hardwick

  Hopefully Not, Over You, Way

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2009.

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• I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.

  Patricia Lockwood

  Hurt, Literature, Force

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• First tweet, best tweet, I always think. I try not to work them too much or else they get Pie Dough Disease, which is where the dough has been to too much college and doesn't understand that it is dough anymore and refuses to be shaped. Pie Dough Disease! Poems get that too.

  Patricia Lockwood

  College, Thinking, Pie

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.

  Roxane Gay

  Ocean, Joining, World

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?

  Roxane Gay

  Lame, Ignored, My Favorite

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Editing, Self, Kind

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

  David Sedaris

  Gone, Pretending, Not Sure

  Live Chat with Readers, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Character, Down And

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of himself". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.

  T-Pain

  Auto Tune, People, Tunes

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• It's really sweet when people tweet at me and say I'm their spirit animal or 'I wish she was my best friend,' which is the nicest compliment. For me, it's like, doing television is so personal because you're in people's homes, so the fact that people feel that way means so much to me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sweet, Mean, Home

  "Mindy Kaling's Real-Life Dating Adventures, The Mindy Project, and SO Much More". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I can tweet before going to bed at midnight or 1 and know that they're up and at 'em, and they're going to have to respond.

  Sarah Palin

  Ems, Bed, Midnight

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• We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

  Mark Cuban

  Sitting, Messages, Digital

  "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit.

  Deepak Chopra

  Phones, Blood, Hands

  "Not My Job: Deepak Chopra Plays 'Yes, We Cannes'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 1, 2013.

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• Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.

  Cathleen Schine

  Eye, Eagles, Nightingales

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• First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

  Wally Lamb

  Stars, Book, Rocks

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• With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Mean, Creating

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.112, Penguin

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• Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Average, Practice, Common

  "Twitter's Impact On Iran Protests Examined". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 19, 2009.

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