Pockets Quotes - Page 24

• My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

  Mia Love

  Opportunity, Land, America

  "The America I know" by Mia Love, dailycaller.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

  Anson Mount

  Wall, Military, Years

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

  Alfred Molina

  Ipods, Essentials, Albums

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

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• I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

  Mark Twain

  Glasses, Hypocrisy, Giving

  R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain (2013). “Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers”, p.178, Univ of California Press

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• I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

  Novak Djokovic

  Player, Men, Giving

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• I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Phones, Hands, Want

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.16, Random House

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• Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.

  Jonas Mekas

  Cameras, Needs, Use

  "Short Films From a Long Life". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2006.

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• Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.

  Helen Thomas

  Israeli

  "‘I’m anti-Zionist,’ Helen Thomas declared, in twilight of long career" by Philip Weiss, mondoweiss.net. July 21, 2013.

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• Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

  Charlotte Arnold

  School, People, Negative

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• It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Knowing, Pay, Taxes

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• When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Football, Breaking Down, Break

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• I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

  Franklin Raines

  Thinking, Would Be, Economy

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Needs, Caution, Ifs

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• The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

  Rick Danko

  Retirement, Play, Together

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• I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a Win-Win situation really; I get an extra 25 dollars in my pocket AND another portrait for my bedroom.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, People, Portraits

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• I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Blood, Practice, Play

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• Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Baby, Children, Learning

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• The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.

  Shepard Fairey

  Mean, People, Bully

  Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

  Tom Harkin

  Vaccines, Our Veterans, Giving

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• You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

  Darrell Royal

  Fall, Thinking, Lakes

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

  Big L

  Crazy, Book, Crooks

  Song: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

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• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Museums, People

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Want, Should

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.520, Simon and Schuster

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