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• I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.

  Taylor Momsen

  Dolls, Looks, Kind

  "Taylor Momsen: ‘I Still Wear Pieces From When I Was In F**king Middle School’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2010.

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• I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.

  Taylor Momsen

  Knives

  "What's the gossip on knives, Metro?", www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

  Jason Mraz

  Mom, Dad, Cat

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• A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

  Elon Musk

  Cells, Numbers, Challenges

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  Gary Neville

  Strong, Disappointment, Mistake

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• Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Home, Together

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• I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be not just someone observing these tiny pockets of people on the planet who have devoted their lives to preserving whatever it is they're passionate about. I want to be them. I am one of them. I just have a different outlet and final outcome as an artist than many of them would. For them, the process can just end in holding on to it, just knowing they've got it tucked away in their private collection. I value that so much, but I feel the conversation dies in a way there.

  Dario Robleto

  Artist, Knowing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Style

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• You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• Don't ask for the task to be easy... just ask for it to be worth it
  Don't wish it was easier... wish you were better
  Don't ask for less challenge... ask for more skill
  Don't ask for less problems... and for more wisdom
  It's the challenge that makes the experience.
  Life and it's colour and meaning and adventure for you is this collection of experiences.
  To wish them away is to wish your life away.

  Jim Rohn

  Adventure, Skills, Challenges

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• There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.

  Sara Paretsky

  Mom, Baby, Book

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• You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Years, People, Ten

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• The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years--centuries, even--before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection.

  Tim Gunn

  Color, Years, Texture

  Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun (2013). “Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

  John Galliano

  Lasts, Pressure, Enormous

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• I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.

  Father Damien

  Doctors, Skills, Ideas

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• Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Knowing, Mind, Pages

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• The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.

  Sterling W Sill

  School, Successful, Doctors

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• I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets.

  Wayne Campbell

  Jobs, Hair, Names

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• We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

  Chita Rivera

  Easter, New York, People

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• The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.

  Larry Page

  Internet, Documents

  "How Google determined our right to be forgotten" by Julia Powles and Enrique Chaparro, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2015.

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• But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

  Gavin de Beer

  Nature, Science, Men

  Sir Gavin De Beer (1956). “Science and the humanities”

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• For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.

  Francis Darwin

  Book, Cutting, Science

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• The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Reality, Common Sense

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• That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Love, Taken, Eye

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• For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Character, Stories, Crafts

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