Collectors Quotes - Page 5

• The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Creating, People, Taxation

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• I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

  Jason Mewes

  Toys, Slow Down, Bigs

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

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• I see a lot of people who love their jobs.
  I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.

  Willie Stargell

  Smile, Sports, Jobs

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• I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

  Craig McCracken

  Character, Toys, Geek

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• The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

  Kit Williams

  New York, Home, Knowing

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• I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

  Robert Mueller

  Thinking, Agents, World

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• I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

  Mark Knopfler

  Guitar, Desire

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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'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

  Quentin Tarantino

  House, Albums, Records

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• The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Scarcity, Strange

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• I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, People, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Song, Writing

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• And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

  Gavin Douglas

  Time, Spring, Ambition

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• When I first walked into a church, I was judged heavily for my life, and how I had lived, and that's part of the reason why now I am trying to make a change in our churches, because what happened was it was almost like something I had to keep secret, when in reality, Jesus himself hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors.

  Heather Veitch

  Jesus, Reality, Secret

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.

  Miles Davis

  Sweet, Girlfriend, Real

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1989). “Miles, the autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• There are lots of ways to design a workflow - for instance, some land surveyors book their notes by hand, and some use electronic data collectors. Every firm has its own unique way of arriving at the end product. However, from a licensed land surveyor, the product should always be of the same high quality.

  Mark Mason

  Book, Unique, Hands

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

  Alice Neel

  Artist, Soul, Portraiture

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• Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Injustice, Whole Life

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• The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

  Armand Hammer

  Art, Fighting, Relaxation

  1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

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• I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.

  Ransom Riggs

  Beautiful, Book, Thinking

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• Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Guarantees That, Mind

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• When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Thinking, New Job

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• There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

  Augustine Birrell

  Men, Doctrine, Aliens

  Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

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• There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

  Richard MacDonald

  Differences, Able, Connections

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• Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Mind, Finals

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "American Drawing", pp. 247-248, 1985.

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