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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I bring the staple of my culture.

  Erykah Badu

  Culture

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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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• Hoodies are definitely street wear, no doubt. It's amazing how hoodies have become such an important staple in people's wardrobes.

  Ian Astbury

  People, Doubt, Important

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Math, Epic

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• I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

  John Doerr

  Engineering, Degrees, Cards

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• I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.

  Harry Crews

  Beautiful, Hurt, Eye

  Harry Crews (1995). “A Childhood: The Biography of a Place”, p.58, University of Georgia Press

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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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• Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

  Kobe Bryant

  Morning, Kids, Ready

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• The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

  Shane Claiborne

  Wine, Luxury, Together

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

  Blake Judd

  Heart, Years, Soul

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Blue, Office, Navy

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2015.

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• That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana.

  Mitt Romney

  Sports, Son, Names

  Speeches at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa FL, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Girl, Mom, Grandmother

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• The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Years, Loving Someone, Sick

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not? (Kyrian) Because I am not some scared little Daimon to run cringing from you. I am your worst nightmare. (Desiderius) Must you resort to cliches? C'mon, Desidisastrous, couldn't you think of anything more original than that B-movie dialogue staple? (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Thinking, Worst Nightmares

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• When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Hero, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.774, Modern Library

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