Boxes Quotes - Page 6

• I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

  Kajol

  Believe, Thinking, Office

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• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  Ida B. Wells

  Law, Rights, Giving

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dream, Memories, Confused

  "Uncle Tungsten". Book by Oliver Sacks, 2001.

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• Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. There’s a great book inside, with recipes, pie history, and plenty of inspiration for gathering your friends together to see who can make the best pie. Plus, ribbons! And scorecards! This would be a great party.

  Shauna James Ahern

  Fun, Party, Book

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• Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Kids, Different, Way

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• Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Secret

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden”

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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dream, Eye, Mind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.32, Grove Press

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• We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Drama, Air, Play

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• We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Chinese, Body

  Doris May Lessing (1992). “Canopus in Argos: Archives”

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• The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  Abdallah II

  Kings, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness.

  Michael Pollan

  Cereal, Lucky Charms, Puff

  "Unhappy Meals". www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2007.

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• When you start defining yourself, you put yourself in boxes and I don't want to be trapped in anything because I will always evolve - I will always change. It's like water. I take on many shapes. Everyone should be that way and not define themselves. I am everything.

  Karrine Steffans

  Water, Defining, Shapes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Hip Hop, Want

  Interview with Jordan Sargent, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

  David Luiz

  Technology, Years, Twenties

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• Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.

  Terence Winter

  Fighting, Games, Office

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• I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, "Hey, you can't run too much." Or if you're a boxer you say, "Hey, you can only box three rounds." It's not right!

  Tommy Lasorda

  Running, Men, Track

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• What do you want me to do,
  To watch for you,
  To see you through?
  A box of rain will ease the pain,
  and love, will see you through.

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Pain, Rain

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• During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.

  Tony Horwitz

  War, Believe, Marine

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• A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Color, Organization

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Apr 29, 2013

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• It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Decision, Penalties

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• The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

  Sean O'Casey

  Running, Drama, Inspiration

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.413, Faber & Faber

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• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Drama, Air

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• I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

  Anais Nin

  Sex, Men, Feelings

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Two, Auditions, Sides

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• Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?

  Lebbeus Woods

  Hate, Thinking, People

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