Collectors Quotes - Page 7

• While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

  Ibn Arabi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Self

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• Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Being Free, Quality, Want

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• I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Art, Three, Pieces

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• I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Drug, Habit

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• Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings, or to amaze people with their possessions. They keep their prized books hidden away in a secret spot to which they resort stealthily, like a Caliph visiting his harem, or a church elder sneaking into a bar. To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope-fiend with those of a miser.

  Robertson Davies

  Real, Book, Dope

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• Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Science, Artist

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

  Austin Kleon

  Artist, Differences, Mind

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

  Helen Fisher

  Jobs, Motivation, Powerful

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• Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

  Susan Sontag

  Passion, Past, Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.70, Macmillan

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• I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and he re-sells them for quite a bit more and then he puts the money in my savings. I just draw all the time and he buys and I get a lot money [laughs]. It's great. My dad's my best manager I ever had. If I get richer, I'd like to be able to buy more of the real collectible Beatles things. I just need a little more money to be a higher class collector [laughs].

  Daniel Johnston

  Dad, Real, Class

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• Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

  Mitch McConnell

  Republican, Economy, Taxes

  "McConnell to Obama: Debt limit fallout all yours". www.arkansasonline.com. July 14, 2011.

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• [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

  Steven Levy

  Google, Desire, Behaviour

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• I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.

  Russell Crowe

  Religious, Hero, Character

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• I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.

  Mos Def

  Book, Artist, Who I Am

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.

  John Vanderslice

  People, Easy, Equipment

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.

  Robert Barry

  Work Out, Easy, Possessive

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Village, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.

  Stewart Brand

  Space, Light, Would Be

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Ideas, Demand

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• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Data, Mind

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

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• Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Past, Fool, Ownership

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• I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Years, Childhood, Nerd

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Yelling, Balance

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• Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Heart, Play, Yesterday

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

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