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• I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.

  Sam the Sham

  Revenge, Names, Today

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• Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

  Alexander Kluge

  People, Details, Looks

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• Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

  Helen Suzman

  Home, Government, Years

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• Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

  Charles C. Mann

  Home, Light, Long

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• Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

  Peter Welch

  Night, Years, People

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• We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Numbers, People, World

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• People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

  David Hockney

  Drawing, People, Village

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• Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mma, Two, White

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

  Elie Abel

  Matter, Facts, Modern

  Elie Abel (1968). “The Missile Crisis”

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• I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

  Stephen Daldry

  Morning, Wake Up, Costumes

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• I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

  Julie London

  Thinking, Order, Together

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• In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Order, Ideas, Rivers

  "In the Air" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2008.

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• We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

  Winston Churchill

  Knowledge, Science, Years

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• All alone by the telephone.

  Irving Berlin

  Solitude, All Alone

  Song: All Alone

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• Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.

  Carson Daly

  Kids, Games, Firsts

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• A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Jobs, Children, Communication

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1983). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

  Beatrice Webb

  Ordinary, Half, Waste

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• Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dying, Answers

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Venus Envy”, p.1, Bantam

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• Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

  Agnes Repplier

  Passion, Writing, Heart

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• When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Nsa, Names

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

  Richard Armour

  Offending, May, Radio

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• Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Rights, Government

  "Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on NSA". www.sanders.senate.gov. May 7, 2015.

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• One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Organization, Ideas, Bed

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• I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Prayer, Father

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Communication, Enhancement, Revolution

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