Staples Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• You can't control what goes on around you, you can't. But for me, I think there's staples of these moments, that crazy moment where you think you're indestructible. That moment where you find out that you're not. And then that moment where all of a sudden you go, okay, I'm not indestructible but I'm gonna be okay. You have this life, and we all have these lives we live but it takes a bit of learning before you realize not every drama's going to kill you and not every hard day has to lead to another one.

  Andrew McMahon

  Crazy, Drama, Thinking

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• A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wine, Beer, Bread

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The education of a Christian prince”, Hippocrene Books

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• Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Food, Class, Salmon

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• Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Halloween, Self, Years

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• "Entourage" is a staple LA-based show and people say it's pretty real and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

  Pauly Shore

  Real, People, Entourage

  "MY LA: Pauly Shore Talks Being Chauffeured By Comedians, Why Michael Bay Hates Him and How He Really Feels About The Valley". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.

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• The impulse to freeze the system, to try to tape all the cracks and staple all the cleavages, to ensure that nobody has to explain to their kid why Christmas this year is going to be a lousy Christmas, that is one of our greatest dangers.

  Will Wilkinson

  Kids, Years, Trying

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• Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people, most - than most proposals for involuntarily fertility control.

  John Holdren

  Drinking, People, Water

  "'Glenn Beck': Progressives' Writings Reveal Closeted Racism". "The Glenn Beck Show", www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2010.

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• Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.

  James E. Faust

  Years, Luxury, Might

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• I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.

  Bart Millard

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately.

  Dave Douglas

  Color, Black, Favorite Color

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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