Staples Quotes

• I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

  Vince Staples

  People, Drug, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

  Vince Staples

  Selfish

  Interview with Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. August 28, 2014.

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• The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

  Graham Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Integrity, Negative, Ethics

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• I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Thinking, Watches, Firsts

  "Padma Lakshmi On Her New Jewelry Line (And The Dos And Don'ts Of Bling!)". Interview with Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.

  Tim Gunn

  Suits, Lifestyle, Ifs

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

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• I bring the staple of my culture.

  Erykah Badu

  Culture

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• Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

  Rett MacPherson

  Reading, Water, Chocolate

  Rett MacPherson (2007). “A Misty Mourning”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

  Auguste Escoffier

  World, Rice

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• You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

  Al Yankovic

  Bagels, Faces, Pitchforks

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• I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

  Charlaine Harris

  Crazy, Men, Battle

  Charlaine Harris (2016). “Real Murders”, p.105, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself.

  Michael Pollan

  Block, Vitamins And Minerals, Body

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.116, Penguin

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• I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season.

  Matthew Williamson

  Hands, Color, Luxury

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• I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

  Taylor Schilling

  Yoga, College, Two

  "Up Close with Orange is the New Black Star Taylor Schilling". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic.

  Paul Feig

  White, Light, Blue

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• I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

  James Badge Dale

  Cutting, Half, Window

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• Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Usa, America, People

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• I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.

  Patty Griffin

  Singing, Happy Day, Backgrounds

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• Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

  Alistair Begg

  Healthy, Church, Preaching

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• Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also
  patterns of communal interdependence.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Shapes, Patterns

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.330, University of Toronto Press

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• Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

  Robin Meyers

  Compassion, Media, Hands

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• I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Clothes, Glue

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• Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

  Irving Stone

  Art, Wine, Winter

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• We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.

  Johnny Carson

  Pie, Gone, Firsts

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