Cell Phone Quotes

• To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

  Ted Turner

  Happiness, Airplane, Phones

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• You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

  Adrien Brody

  Phones, Cells, Difficult

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• Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

  Haruki Murakami

  Phones, Cells, Inconvenience

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• Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Hate, Phones, Cells

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• I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

  Joel Madden

  Song, Phones, Cells

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• People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

  Gordon Bell

  Memories, Book, Numbers

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• You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

  Jim Lehrer

  Phones, Cells, Want

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• Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Technology, Phones

  2002 In Wired, Jun.

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• Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nice, Memorable, Patriotic

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• When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

  Lech Walesa

  Block, Fighting, Phones

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• As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

  Steve Buyer

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody

  Oliver North

  Phones, Cells, Rely Upon

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• Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

  Susan Orlean

  Phones, Cells, Long

  "Hello, It's Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

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• It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

  Sherry Turkle

  Football, Children, Phones

  "Is Your Computer Also Your Best Friend?". The Chestertown Spy Interview, chestertownspy.org. January 29, 2011.

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• From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

  John Shadegg

  Philosophy, Fighting, Phones

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• The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase of chemical elements in the environment.

  Robert O. Becker

  Phones, Elements, Earth

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• And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Phones, Cells, Use

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• I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

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• But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

  Armistead Maupin

  Communication, Opportunity, Phones

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• Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Communication, Phones, Cells

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• There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Opportunity, Hands

  Newseum Address on Internet Freedom, delivered 21 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy

  Lisa Loeb

  Crazy, Phones, Cells

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• The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.

  Peter Chernin

  Real, Phones, Cells

  " News Corp heeds call for mobile content" by Dominic Timms, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2006.

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• People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Country, Phones

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• When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?

  Jen Lancaster

  Cells, Phones, Rude

  Jen Lancaster (2007). “Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?”, p.39, Penguin

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