Charging Quotes

• Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, People, Grace

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• There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

  Mario Cuomo

  Political, World, Politics

  "The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans". Book by Martin Higgin, p. 131, 2006.

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• I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

  Bob Balaban

  Creating, Littles, Rooms

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Mean, Phones, Years

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• The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Law, Creating, United States

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• What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

  Tom Wilson

  Country, Funny Things, Experience

  Tom Wilson (1997). “Ziggyisms: Notable Quotes of Wisdom for Everyday Living”, p.86, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

  Patty Hearst

  Looks, Murder, Throwing

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• Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.

  Paul Hawken

  Years, Oil, Wells

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, Context Institute (p. 17), www.context.org. Summer 1995.

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• The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Technology, Phones, Years

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• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, Marketing, Too Much

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.75, 谷月社

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• Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

  Chris Sacca

  Simplicity, Entrepreneur, Use

  Twitter post from Dec 9, 2014

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• Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Children, Women

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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  If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Years, Political

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• Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

  Donna Brazile

  Running, Tough Times, African American

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Inspirational, Running, Native American

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• At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.

  Lynne McTaggart

  People, Deep Thought, Pulse

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

  Kiran Bedi

  Life, Time, Responsibility

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• A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

  Tom Brokaw

  Morning, Luck, Bigs

  "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Glasses, Names

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• Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Taken, Sharks, Roles

  "Preying on the Poor". www.tomdispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mother, Self, Opal

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• It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Mother, Father, Parent

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.

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• Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

  Matt Groening

  Fans, Lines, Quoting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Whoa," Brit breathed, handing my drink back to me. "That was..." "Really hot," Jacob finished. "I thought you two were going to rip off each other's clothes and start making babies right here on the dirty, beer covered floor. Like I was going to have to start charging admission for what was about to go down.

  J. Lynn

  Baby, Rip, Dirty

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