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“Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you move to them from the President, or the President will be reacting, not leading.”

Ifs Moving President Boxes Priorities Staff Reacting

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“Valentine's Day is celebrated a little differently here in L.A. Nobody eats chocolate because of the calories, so people give each other tofu-shaped boxes filled with bean curd. Then they fantasize about what their Pilates instructor would be like if he was straight.”

People Ifs Giving Littles Would Be Filled Boxes Chocolate Valentine Valentine's Day Beans Calories Instructors Pilates Tofu

Author:Craig Ferguson

“They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.”

Girl Social Causes Black Boxes Unusual Pregnant Oscars Teenage Social Work Condom Teenage Girl Black Girl

Author:D. L. Hughley

“I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.”

Want Government Culture Democracy Majority Boxes Worried Concentration Entitled Ballots Erdogan

Author:Elif Safak

“The boards had to be beautiful in Steve [Jobs]'s eyes when you looked at them, even though when he created the Macintosh he made it impossible for a consumer to get in the box, because he didn't want people tampering with anything.”

People Want Made Eye Jobs Beautiful Impossible Boxes Made It Consumers Boards Macintosh

Author:John Sculley

“It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn't think like me. I don't think like him. He thinks like an editor. He thinks like a director. He thinks completely outside of the box when it comes to writing and so because of that he leads me down roads that I would've never gone down. And he sucks at grammar. So together we're perfect.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Different Together Perfect Gone Mets Directors Tools Down And Tables Boxes Like Me Editors Partnership Grammar Down The Road Leading Me

Author:Todd Farmer

“I also love doing comedy. I just moved to L.A. last July. Before that, Vancouver is all about sci-fi, so I didn't get any comedy, whatsoever. But in L.A., people are like, "You don't look quirky enough," and I'm like, "I'm quirky. I'm the definition of quirky. How do you want me to look quirky." They have these little boxes that they put everyone in, so now I have to try to break the mold and get them to see me as being quirky.”

People Want Trying Looks Littles Enough Lasts Break Comedy Like You Moved Definitions Boxes Sci Fi Want Me July Mold You Want Me Quirky Vancouver Do You Want Me

Author:Tinsel Korey

“I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.”

Looks Song Band Boxes Influential Fanatics Outside The Box

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.”

World Trying Whole Might Universe Stuff Sticks Boxes Categories Worldview

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.”

Littles Able Moving Artist Bits Simple Little Bit Boxes Singers Mediums Unfair Songwriters Singer Songwriters Versatility

Author:Frank Ocean

“I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and they didn't seem to make check boxes for whatever it was that I had grown up into. I definitely explore that a lot in my novels.”

Thinking Years Seems Remember Novel Boxes Checks Appropriate Teens Teenage Mold Teenage Years

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.”

Thinking Want Trying Courses Proud Office Boxes Critical Box Office Acclaim

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign.”

Moving House Stuff Wife Week My Friends Moved Boxes My Wife Hey Packs Truck Haul Hey You Driveway U Haul

Author:Bill Engvall

“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!”

“I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.”

Thinking Knows Needs Writing Trying Bigs Might Guy Stuff Audience Know How Skills Tools Boxes Website Other Guys Edits Adept

Author:Louis C. K.

“My father hauled boxes so I could get an education and earn enough money to pay someone to make me lift weights.”

Enough Father Pay Weight Boxes Lifts

Author:Dana Gould

“I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.”

Actors Perfect Comedy Boxes Tone Peter Comedic Sellers Physicality Physical Comedy

Author:J. B. Smoove

“I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor... dirty people leave pizza boxes.”

People Differences Clothes Boxes Dirty Bedroom Messy Pizza

Author:Nikki Ferrell

“The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.”

Imagination Break Boxes Constraints Break Out Shackles Unleashed

Book:How We Decide

Source: How We Decide

“You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.”

Knows Way Heart Sometimes Used Song Three Stuff Hours Half Happened Boxes Noise Crap Rehearsal Nevermind

Author:Dave Grohl

“There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.”

World Feelings Funny Boxes Warm Lap Pizza

Author:Kevin James

“Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Mean Voice Millions Week Office Hundred Dollars Boxes Compare Bully Ants Million Dollars Jimmy Box Office Neutrons

Author:Rob Paulsen

“I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.”

Boxes Composing

Author:Roscoe Mitchell

“I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo, guitar and mandolin. We played at root beer stands, like the .Drive-ins they have now, making $2.50 a night, and we had a cigar box for the kitty that we passed around, sometimes making fifty or sixty dollars a night. Of course we didn't get none of it, we kids.”

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Author:T-Bone Walker

“I think the biggest problem with drum and bass is that people don't like to collaborate, and so from very early on I have made a point of stepping outside the box and working with as many people as I can.”

People Thinking Made I Can Problem Boxes Bass Outside The Box Drum And Bass

Author:DJ Rap

“It's amazing. It's actually build from old Siemens Telefunken transistors from the 60ties. There is like 10 in there. It's the most powerful distortion you can have. It does not only do distortion, it does so many weird things. You can't control it, it's sound different all the time. But it's an endless source for fantastic sounds. For example the track "Transit" is entirely made with this box. You have to put the guitar sound in. It's like a pedal.”

Doe Made Different Sound Powerful Example Source Guitar Track Boxes Endless Fantastic Most Powerful Distortion Weird Things Pedals Guitar Sound Transistors

Author:Christian Fennesz

“I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening to a lot of classical music lately for some reason. I used to do that a lot when I was doing cabinet making in New England. I've sort of returned to that for some reason. That might be surprising to people.”

People Has Beens Reason Might Used Listening Right Now England Obvious Boxes Surprising Classical Music Cabinets New England Outside The Box

Author:Hal Ketchum

“I am one of those people who is never satisfied, ... When I was a little kid, I made a spaceship out of a refrigerator box, and I was pissed off that it wouldn't fly. Couldn't be happy with it. It was pretty cool, too.”

People Littles Made Kids Boxes Satisfied Little Kid Spaceships Refrigerators Pissed Off

Author:Howie Day

“I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.”

Writing Littles House Names Forget Written Paper Draws Sitting Boxes Apples Never Forget Papers Microphones Diana Doodling

Author:Michael Jackson

“Until 1986, developing games was a mere hobby for me. Back then, I didn't know that game designers existed, because the designers' names didn't appear on the boxes.”

Knows Games Names Mere Boxes Developing Designer Hobbies

Author:Klaus Teuber

“You're thinking about the continuum of life as you load the washing machine or scoop out the litter box.blue-girl-larger Or maybe that's just me. That seems to be an endlessly challenging and interesting way to live.”

Thinking Way Seems Girl Challenges Interesting Machines Blue Boxes Load Washing Way To Live Continuum Interesting Ways Washing Machines

Author:Laurie Foos

“We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep [Vladimir] Putin contained, because he is a one-horse show. Energy. And we have an abundance of energy, but we have archaic energy exportation rules. We need to get rid of those, allow ourselves to really make Europe dependent on us and other parts of the world dependent on us for energy. Put him back in his little box where he belongs.”

Thinking World Way Needs Should Littles Different Use Shows Order Energy Economic Europe Horse Boxes Different Ways Abundance Dependent Putin Economic Power Horse Show

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.”

Mind Ideas Action Courses Talent Youth Adults Boxes Alternatives Progressive Worn Inventing Elude Jaded Prodigious

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?”

Seems Difficult Views Brother Tasks Conservative Boxes Arguing Scripture Gods Will Conform Brothers And Sisters Repent Straightforward Unwilling Static Lifeless

Author:Gene Robinson

“If it has to be put in a box, it's a country record. But it's hard to do that, because it is inspired and influenced by the history of music in two different people's backgrounds. I think the focal point for many is the harmonies, and I think that is what is special and unique about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Two Different Country Hard Records Special Unique Harmony Inspired Boxes Backgrounds Different Peoples Focal Point History Of Music

Author:Jessica Harp

“People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.”

People Thinking Jobs Careers Figures Office Boxes Distracted Box Office

Author:Andrew Scott

“I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.”

Thinking Looks Use Shows Girl Fun Stuff Type Concepts Boxes Clubs Rap Video Corny Outside The Box

Author:Mac Miller

“I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

“When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.”

Different Results Higher Demand Office Hollywood Treats Boxes Box Office

Author:Kevin Hart

“Let your Neshuma (soul) be the real inspiration. You have a soul, you have a spirit, don't lock it in a box and forget it... Let's make this a better world... We dare not assume that the next century will have less hatred or murders than the past centuries. How can we? Are the weapons of tomorrow less harmful? Are the leaders more dependable? Are our peace treaties more durable? Are our ethics more honorable? Time is running out... We must hurry.”

“At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'”

Knows Littles Has Beens Left Half Filled Boxes Lunch Warning Weekend Salad Pasta Paparazzi Doorstep

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“Life is like a box of terrible analogies.”

Life Is Terrible Boxes Life Is Like Analogies

Author:Oscar Wilde

“My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.”

Wanted My Family Gold Boxes Eight Colour Silver Crayon Turquoise Magenta

Author:Joni Mitchell

“On the side of box of my superman costume it actually said - 'Do not attempt to fly!'”

Said Sides Boxes Costumes

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.”

Want Can Do Offers Boxes Customers Application Engines Interactive Layout Mozilla

Author:Mitchell Baker

“If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions.”

People Ifs Firsts Pieces Advice Cooking Boxes Reaching Ingredients Recipes One Piece Cookbook Betty Crocker

Author:Grant Achatz

“The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.”

Humans Body Sound Voice Lines Air Shapes Mouths Boxes Mediums Poetry Is Chests Coming Out Human Body

Author:Robert Pinsky

“The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.”

Should Boxes Swings Hitting

Author:Chili Davis

“I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.”

Hard Three Boxes Desks

Author:Warren Buffett

“I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.”

People Way May Mean Hard Individual Particular Boxes Expected Characterization

Author:Margaret Atwood

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