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• He went over to the leathers and picked them up. Nice Catholic boy like him didn't know much about BDSM, but it looked like he was going to learn firsthand. Taking out his cellphone, he hit V, but didn't expect an answer. He guessed GPS was going to have to come in handy once again.

  J.R. Ward

  Nice, Boys, Gps

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• Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

  Douglas Coupland

  Remember, Used, Ifs

  Douglas Coupland (2007). “JPod: A Novel”, p.220, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I usually walk six miles a day.I take my cellphone and I go out on the bike path and I just walk and work.

  Jill Stein

  Path, Six, Miles

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Unexpected, Refrigerators

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• I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

  Paul Theroux

  Thinking, Serious, Conversation

  "I don't think there's genius in my writing". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

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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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• I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

  John Cusack

  Coffee, People, Computer

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• These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

  Billy Corgan

  Tedium, These Days, Competing

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Interview with Stereo IQ, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

  Iris Apfel

  Connections, Looks, Use

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

  David Mitchell

  Phones, People, Too Late

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.70, Vintage

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• I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her. She is very sweet. I also know what that is like. I have heard my agent thinking he has hit mute on the phone before he, you know, physically unleashes broken glass and cellphones at his poor assistant. It is a tough job under the best of circumstances. I understand that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Sweet, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways this makes their work more honest and easier to read - they can also manipulate, although the work of professionals can be quite manipulative as well.

  Fred Ritchin

  Outcomes, Way, Honest

  "Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era?". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2013.

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• That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

  Penn Jillette

  Income, World, Pay

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• I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable.

  Linus Torvalds

  Use, Androids, Made

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• At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

  Joshua Bell

  Upset, Halls, Music Hall

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• The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?

  Mike Rosen

  Children, Exercise, Evil

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• President Obama is in China. Today he visited the kids who make our cellphones.

  David Letterman

  Kids, President, Today

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• I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and the power of Perfidia is that it's the result of complete immersion. I was there for the two years that it took me to write that book.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Writing, Years

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Iphone, Phones

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.51, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The FCC is considering lifting the ban on cellphone calls on planes. The good news is you'll be able to make calls during your flight. The bad news? The person sitting next to you will be able to make cellphone calls during yourflight.

  Jay Leno

  Fcc, News, Sitting

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• The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

  Manu Joseph

  Children, People, Triumph

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• When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Girlfriend, Years, People

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

  Nina Jacobson

  Exciting, Ifs

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• Over the weekend it came out that the U.S. has been listening in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone since 2002. At this point, I feel like the only world leader our government DOESN'T listen to is President Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Government, Leader

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• So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter or fail, but you always know that you pushed hard and aimed high. Take a leap of faith. Fear not. Courage is the ultimate career move.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Careers, Leap Of Faith

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