Phones Quotes - Page 27

• To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

  Gene Simmons

  Band, Want, Anything And Everything

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• I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Writing, Intimate Conversation, World

  "Couple of the Moment: Kimora & Djimon" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 14, 2008.

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• I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

  Richard Simmons

  Cheer, Years, People

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Trying, Tasks

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• I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

  Robert Smith

  Past, Doors, Numbers

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• If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

  Edward Snowden

  Cells, Nsa, Numbers

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cells, Two, Chance

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• I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Believe, Artist, Years

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• If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.

  Patti Stanger

  Successful, Men, Important

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• The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

  Patrick Stewart

  Cells, Insane, Trying

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• I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

  Curtis Stone

  Sleep, Night, Iphone

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• The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

  Taylor Swift

  Hate, Gossip, Way

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• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  Ice T

  Play, Cities, Next Day

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• When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Uganda, Years

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• Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

  Helen Thomas

  Reality, Thinking, Dedication

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• Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

  James Thurber

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 5 June 1937

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• I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

  Kiana Tom

  Surfing, Surf, Friend Love

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• We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Humorous, Technology

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• I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

  Josh Turner

  Thinking, Years, Able

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• I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

  Jesse Ventura

  Cells, Cell Phone, Gravestone

  "Kerry Washington’s Reason For Taking A Digital Detox Is Perfect" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2016.

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• So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

  Bill Walsh

  Errors, Editing, Numbers

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• I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?

  Julie Walters

  Character, Play, Mia

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• Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mom, Heart, Men

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• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  Orson Welles

  Years, Waiting, Done

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