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• My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Europe, Records

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• No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

  Ben Elton

  People, Waiting, Natural

  "Stark". Book by Ben Elton, 1989.

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• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Different, May, Littles

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• There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Book, Writing, Differences

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• A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Thinking, Energy

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• I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Father, Holiday, Two Sides

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• Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

  Jim Henson

  Keys, Puppets, Detroit

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• Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

  Billy Dee Williams

  Starting Over, Starting, Teapots

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• As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

  Fay Wray

  Book, Advice, Next

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• It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Trophies, Pity

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.87, Pen and Sword

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• Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

  Haim Ginott

  Comeback, Insult, Instant

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• It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

  Donatella Versace

  Criticism, Would Be, Easy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

  Brad Paisley

  Rocks, Cds, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

  Justin Winsor

  Book, Power, Soul

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• As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they debase religion even more than they misconstrue science. They are a motley collection to be sure, but their core of practical support lies with the evangelical right, and creationism is a mere stalking horse or subsidiary issue in a political program...The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the 'liberal' rhetoric of 'equal time'.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Lying, Men

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• I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

  Joanna Garcia

  Pennies, Lucky, Seems

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• The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

  John Mortimer

  Rocks, Law, Safety

  'Clinging to the Wreckage' (1982) ch. 7

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• I've teamed up with BaubleBar to curate a collection of gorgeous jewelry pieces. I worked closely with the BaubleBar team to design a collection that encompasses my style and all of my go to pieces.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Team, Design, Style

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.

  Brian Kilmeade

  Dad, Book, People

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• Of course I took something from the [Glee set]. I took my entire shoe collection, that's all I would ever need.

  Alex Newell

  Shoes, Glee, Needs

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• I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection.

  Joanna Garcia

  Daughter, Kids, Thinking

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• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

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• The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Joy, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Amber, Use

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