Paper Quotes - Page 24

• The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don't worry, I won't quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it's in there.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Worry, Healthy, Democracy

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• Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.

  Sanya Richards-Ross

  People, Events, Competing

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• I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

  Simon Hoggart

  Turkeys, Paris, News

  "Just a bellow - or a roar of public rage?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.

  Xavi

  Football, Papers, Knows

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• You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

  Raimund Abraham

  Office, Desire, Needs

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• Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Matter

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

  Antonio Damasio

  Running, Writing, Hands

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• I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

  Edward Witten

  Trying, Figures, Tendencies

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• Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

  Tove Jansson

  Giving, Feelings, Gold

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• We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.

  Ludacris

  Acting, Cameras, Musician

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

  Rodney Brooks

  Ideas, Half, World

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• I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in your head, as long as you had the skill to put it down on paper, was fair game. And I started filling sketchbooks with my own comics.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Games, Skills, Long

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

  Dexter Scott King

  Government, Tape, Materials

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• A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in themselves, but artistically, what you're trying to achieve with a film is so very different to what you're trying to achieve with a book, and the way when you write a script is so very different on paper to how it seems on a screen.

  Andrea Riseborough

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.

  Jay Leno

  Home, Blow, Wind

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• When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

  Simon Van Booy

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

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• My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

  Akira Yoshizawa

  Philosophy, Law, Joy

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• Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Missing

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• Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  Ed Rendell

  Campaigns, Phases, Speech

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• Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Suffering, Serious

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• The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Blood, United States, Body

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Competition, Magazines

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.

  Joey Badass

  Dad, Degrees, Pieces

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.

  Robert G. Picard

  Believe, Technology, Drm

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