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• Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.

  John Eldredge

  Couple, Race, Groups

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• On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Ideas, Water

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.165, Vintage

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• Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare.

  Rod Serling

  Art, Space, Special

  "Night Gallery". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1969 - 1973.

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• There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Simple, Differences

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

  Bryan Batt

  Titles, Broadway, Cups

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• I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Home, Night, Auctions

  1989 On quick-turnover profits on his work. In the NewYork Times,10 May.

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• She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

  Bob Dylan

  Antiques, Walking

  Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.

  Jim Butcher

  Art, Latin, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1694, Penguin

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• I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.

  Martin Gore

  Vintage, Gears, Machines

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• My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

  Michael Shanks

  Brother, Book, Comic

  "Michael Shanks on Smallville and Hawkman!". Interview with Jenna Busch, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.

  Milton Friedman

  Trying, Way, Firsts

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• It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

  Robert Payne

  Position Of Power, Would Be, Garbage

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Shelves, True Freedom

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.490, Harvard University Press

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• Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

  Dean Koontz

  Doors, Waiting, Soul

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.1597, Bantam

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• I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

  Brett Ratner

  Book, Kids, Young

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• I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

  Rachael Taylor

  Toss

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.

  Errico Malatesta

  Lying, Government, Police

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• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

  Frances O'Grady

  Retirement, School, Media

  "Forget 1979. This time we'll unite beleaguered Britain" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

  David Lee

  Art, Purpose

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• I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Keys, Interesting, Weakness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

  Gunter Brus

  Art, Home, Restoration

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon" by Gunter Brus, edit by Monika Faber, Actar, (p. 226), 2005.

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• I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.

  Camila Alves

  Fashion, Responsibility, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Real, Writing, Stories

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

  William Saroyan

  Letters, Taxes, Stills

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• There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

  Russell Lynes

  Brother, Moving, Feet

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