Mail Quotes - Page 6

• I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

  Lena Dunham

  "Even Lena Dunham’s Dog Is Getting Frisky With Her" by Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. June 08, 2012.

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• I still go to a party and say something embarrassing to someone, and then write them a weird e-mail about it the next day, and then write them a text because I think they didn't get the e-mail. No matter what happens with your level of success, you still have to deal with all the baggage that is yourself.

  Lena Dunham

  Party, Writing, Thinking

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• For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Numbers, People

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998".

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• People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.

  Tom Waits

  Art, People, Frightened

  "Tom Waits - Eccentric in the Very Best Sense". Interview with Charles Champlin, articles.latimes.com. January 14, 1988.

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• What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?

  Herbert Jay Stern

  Mean, Doe, Computer

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• I won't ever do e-mail.

  David Mamet

  "Mamet Talk" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.

  Tracy Kidder

  Differences, Progress, Junk

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.

  Keegan Allen

  Fans, Answers, Months

  "Hot Topic: Keegan Allen" by Katie Amey, www.elle.com. December 27, 2012.

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• It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

  Robert Pozen

  Reading, Home, Reality

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• I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

  Robert Pozen

  Ohio, Principles, Needs

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• The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

  Christian Lacroix

  Intimate, Conversation

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• I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.

  Anita Baker

  Voice, People, Shapes

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• A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
  A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
  A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
  A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

  William Watson Purkey

  Education, Jobs, School

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• I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

  David Duchovny

  Phones, Play, Needs

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• I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Reflection, Thinking

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• I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

  Alan Lightman

  Morning, Use, Messages

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• Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to kill themselves. If your home contains a sharp, toxic object, your baby will locate it; if your home contains no such object, your baby will try to obtain one via mail order.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.18, Rodale

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• When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Thinking, Phones

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• Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

  Jonathan Raban

  Play, Washington State, Election

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• I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.

  Alma Powell

  Running, Husband, Hate

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• It makes me so much calmer when I’m responding to e-mails later.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Responding, Calmer

  "Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device" By Matt Richtel, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my mom says it might be poisonous.

  Justin Bieber

  Mom, Trying, Fans

  "How the Internet Made Justin Bieber a Star" by Claire Suddath, content.time.com. May 17, 2010.

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• E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

  Jeff Bezos

  Genes, Ability, Politeness

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• Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Writing

  "My golden rule". money.cnn.com. November 28, 2005.

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• What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.

  James R. Clapper

  Nsa, Doe, Citizens

  "Clapper’s Lie" by Charles C. W. Cooke, www.nationalreview.com. June 11, 2013.

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