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• When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

  Demetri Martin

  Play, Toes, Curse Words

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2012

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• : There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Two, Want, Absence

  Source: collider.com

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• Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Real, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.974, First Avenue Editions

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• Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.

  Clay Shirky

  Jobs, Mean, Going Away

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• I don't think many people were, but I love the black, the tassels and the leather, obviously. I'm still wearing that. I haven't let go of that. I love all things leather, and so I love that from her outfits as well. But I don't know if I would necessarily do the Mozart top, the button down, the 'Hot For Teacher' kind of look. That's not really my thing. I would let that one go.

  Malin Akerman

  Letting Go, Teacher, Thinking

  "Malin Akerman Talks Rock of Ages". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 12, 2017.

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• People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking about how am I forgiving my enemies? How am I turning the other cheek? How am I loving my neighbor as myself? To me that's 10,000 times more difficult than to say should priests be married or not be married? I'm, like, I think we're wasting all out energies on the wrong thing. Let's work on the most difficult stuff.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Car, Needs

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

  Tess Gallagher

  Hug, Connections, Coats

  Tess Gallagher (1984). “Willingly: Poems”

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• As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.

  Bruce Tognazzini

  Keys, Fans, Four

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• The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Objectives, Browsers

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• Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're reshaped to the female body.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Men, Female, Body

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• The thing is, when you put a button in someone's hand and give them the power of yes or no, no is a shorter word. People just say no. The power lies in who can say no the most. But, real power, though, lies in the opportunity to say yes. I think people ultimately realize that, but not when they're in the spotlight.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Real, Lying, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Netflix, October

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things go, the physical properties of cloth, what happens when you drop it, how easy or hard it is to carry compared with everything else he has ever carried, what clean clothes smell like, how a big towel can turn into a small bundle, how the small bundle you just folded can turn into a big towel again, plus any songs we care to sing or stories or related or unrelated facts we care to pass on.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Song, Children, Zippers

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• The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.

  Teju Cole

  War, California, Sight

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've done a fair amount of that stuff... when we did 'Lord of the Rings' the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job. You have to have a kind of zen button that you press and allow the mind to be focused in a certain way.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Mind, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Iphone, Uber

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

  Rodger Kamenetz

  Dream, Helping, Predicaments

  Source: content.time.com

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• When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end.

  Max Tundra

  Hassle, Ends, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Silly, Thinking, Fire

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Uncles, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, Elements, Eras

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Never trust anyone who buttons their top button.

  Daniel Tosh

  Never Trust, Never Trust Anyone

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• I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!

  William Shatner

  Technology, Fire, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I lost a button hole.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Lost

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