Desks Quotes - Page 10

• President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill. So he can take Donald Trump's vision, help translate that into actual policy, legislative language, bill text, working through the process so that it ends up back on Donald Trump's desk so that he can sign it into law.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Law, Vision, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've stayed in so many hotel rooms that I'm shocked if, when I stay in a hotel room, the hotel phone isn't on the desk. Then I'm like, "This isn't a real hotel room." If there's not outlets next to the desk, or if they have an iPhone adapter for an iPhone 4, that's when I'm sitting there annoyed. I understand that it's ridiculous, but that's just me spending way too much time in hotels.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Real, Iphone, Phones

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Kings, Book, School

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from his desk. He was known to use it from time to time. The person who was hilarious with the phone was Hoover. He was a real engineer. He made a closed circuit phone where he could call the important people and they could call him, a government hotline, but it was closed. He shut out the possibility of input from people he didn't expect to get input from.

  Amity Shlaes

  Real, Phones, Government

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• The false reporting by the media, the false, horrible, fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with Russia, and probably [Vladimir] Putin said, he's sitting behind his desk a and he's saying, you know, I see what's going on in the United States, I follow it closely, it's going to be impossible for President [Donald] Trump to ever get along with Russia because of all the pressure he's got with this fake story.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Media, Fake

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I often just go right through the alphabet in my head when I'm looking for a rhyme.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Thinking, Faithful, Rhyming

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Musician, Legends

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

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• Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.

  Dave Grohl

  Sound, Doe, Different

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

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• We have some breaking news from our dedicated kale coverage desk here at NPR.Starting now, Chick-fil-A has kale on its menu next to the spicy chicken sandwich and the waffle fries. It's called the Superfood Side.

  Ari Shapiro

  Kale, Npr, News

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.

  Victoria Chang

  Jobs, Kids, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show.

  Richard Masur

  Character, Two, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece of paper once, so I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then. My son's homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way. That way, it's not nagging me, things to add to my to-do list.

  Adina Porter

  Teacher, Son, Trying

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• I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Stuff, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• And sometimes, I'd be allowed to be hanging out in the studio, which I just loved kind of, like, being in the room with these big recording desks, with all these, like, buttons and knobs and watching the guys use them.

  Mark Ronson

  Guy, Buttons, Use

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Writing, Procrastination, Quirky

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Trying, Way, Lists

  Source: time.com

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• I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. The difference is that once I was in Antwerp only doing two men's shows a year. And the weird thing is I thought I was busy then.

  Raf Simons

  Thinking, Men, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.

  Douglas Booth

  School, Numbers, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.

  David Pajo

  Guitar, Cds, Interesting

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk.

  Rolonda Watts

  Pet, Supportive, Bed

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

  James Lipton

  New Year, School, Years

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I don't think that there's a guy behind the desk at every newspaper saying "No, woman" and sending her on her way, but that's what's systemic about it, right, like that people don't quite realize that maybe they're attracted to a male op-ed more than a female op-ed, or because of networking they know this person from going out to a bar with them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy. It's almost easy to want to sit down at your desk when you have a free five minutes and try to clear out some of the incoming emails rather than strip things strategically and foundationally and ask about what the most important objectives for you and the company are.

  Ivanka Trump

  Keys, Perspective, Focus

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• The late '60s and the '70s, a lot of this really beautiful equipment was being made and installed into studios around the world and the Neve boards were considered like the Cadillacs of recording consoles. They're these really big, behemoth-looking recording desks; they kind of look like they're from the Enterprise in Star Trek or something like that. They're like a grayish color, sort of like an old Army tank with lots of knobs, and to any studio geek or gear enthusiast it's like the coolest toy in the world.

  Dave Grohl

  Beautiful, Stars, Army

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

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• I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the zone because there're so many distractions that can stop you. From my bedroom to my office isn't really that far, but I have to go via the kitchen and there's so many things that can stop me and interrupt me.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Office, Kitchen

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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