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“That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.”

Bigs America Company Technology Information Office Accounts Claims Dollars Boxes Income Apples Addresses Owners Ireland Microsoft Information Technology

Author:Michael Hudson

“Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.”

Problem Political Social Black Keys Boxes Units Black Boxes

Author:Stephen Marche

“The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops around a major artery, then goes all the way back up again. It goes right past the larynx on the way down. All a decent designer would have to do is loop it off at that point. What we're looking at is the legacy of history.”

Way Running Past Voice Majors Boxes Legacy Designer Decent Nerves Chests Loops Arteries

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I think that in poetry personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.”

Thinking Should Believe Kind Important I Believe Bigger Mirrors Boxes Relevant Narcissistic Personal Experiences Hiroshima Dachau

Author:Sylvia Plath

“For the rest of your life you must check the box on employment applications asking the dreaded question: "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" And once you check that box, the odds are sky high that your application is going straight to the trash. Hundreds of professional licenses are off-limits to people convicted of felonies.”

People Sky Limits Asking Boxes Checks Employment Application Odds License Trash Rest Of Your Life Felony Licenses Sky High

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.”

Bigs Fiction Objects Produce Periods Shots Ears Science Fiction Boxes Invention Code Dna Galaxy Cracked Pandora Chimera Pandora's Box

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.”

Ifs Knows Littles Book Kids Night Dies Reading Bed Notes Boxes Dinner Cleaning Little Kid Publish Rhyming Cleaning Up

Author:Judy Blume

“Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box.”

Might Race Strategy Boxes Barack Get Away Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Shelby Steele

“My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both.”

Knows World Mind Believe Doe Real Able Earth Christian I Believe Fit Demand Foundation Boxes Tension Believe In God Verses Predestination Hermeneutics

Author:Rick Warren

“The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.”

Way Jobs Political Bits Victory Boxes Ballots Political Victory

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It was fun to play that surreal high school life [in Jawbreaker]. I was a huge fan of the movie Heathers. But I think at the time - you know, when the movie was released, it was a very limited release, and it didn't do very well at the box office. And I love the fact that it has found legs and that the audience has kept growing and growing over the years.”

Thinking Knows Years Wells Play Facts School Found Fun Audience Growing Fans Huge Office High School Boxes Legs Release Surreal Box Office School Life Heathers

Author:Julie Benz

“I mean, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, I think the young kids sell lot of records. But for an older kind of artist, more of a sort of heritage, vintage type of artist, you have to think outside the box.”

Thinking Kind Mean Kids Young Artist Records Type Sells Boxes Heritage Vintage Justin Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Boy George

“I'm a professional at what I do. I'm an actor. I've been on enough movie sets to know the difference between a stage light and an apple box. I know the difference. Why? Because I've been around it long enough and I know.”

Knows Long Enough Light Actors Differences Stage Boxes Apples Movie Sets Enough Movie

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.”

People Thinking Looks Situation Easier Boxes Unfair Lanes

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.”

Knows Play Wife Daughter Boxes My Wife My Daughter Valentine Funny Valentine

Author:Miles Davis

“Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.”

Wells Has Beens Helping Film Figures Office Boxes Help Me Box Office Yardsticks

Author:Aamir Khan

“To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.”

Film Numbers Audience Honest Office Response Boxes Reactions Box Office

Author:Aamir Khan

“I'd really like to see smart sex writing, writing that can take sex apart and try to put it back together, that doesn't just put a box around "sex writing" and give it glaring neon lights but assumes that sex is part of everything else in our lives.”

Giving Writing Trying Light Together Sex Our Lives Smart Assuming Boxes Back Together Neon Neon Lights

Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel

“We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).”

Mean Bigs Dies Economy Economic Streets Boxes Locals Chains Commerce Retail Rebuilding Main Street Walmart

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt are desolately beautiful. Few other people go there. I am gloriously alone, unmolested, and absorbed in attempting to see what I am looking at.”

People Beautiful Fields Boxes Painter Site Attempting Folds Motifs

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.”

Mean Littles Made Sometimes Would Be Form Originals Presses Productions Boxes Studios Wheels Plastic Clay Mold Pottery Vases Plasters

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.”

“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.”

Knows Want Long Feelings Father Talking Dog Broken Died Rose Boxes Boat Pockets Chocolate Captains Stem Lied Box Of Chocolates

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.”

Different Matter Song Type Boxes Various Eras Genre Different Genres

Author:Adrian Marcel

“I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?”

Knows Play Calling Tradition Yeah Folks Boxes Popular Music

Author:Shane MacGowan

“Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.”

Long Book Stories Dream Novel Wonderful Written Boxes Breathing Favourite

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.”

Ifs Want Writing Stories Happens Structure Boxes What You Want Wildness

Author:Colum McCann

“Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.”

People Seems Might Sides Hours Rooms Talking Computer Seven Boxes Communicate Eight Staring Ironic Living Room Not Talking Saying Nothing Talking Back

Author:Howard Rheingold

“When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.”

Ifs Want I Can Film Actors Support Office Boxes Tickets Box Office

Author:Gayle King

“I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.”

Persons Actors Proud Tomorrow Office Boxes Carter Box Office Kitsch

Author:Taylor Kitsch

“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.”

World Trying Attitude Positive Thinking Color Including Boxes Positivity Gray Bleak Crayon Bright Colors Positive Attitude Images

Author:Allen Klein

“To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.”

Children Boxes Toys

Author:Allen Klein

“When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.”

People Littles Stars Five Fans Conservative Boxes Pops Pop Stars

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'”

Thinking Huge Office Boxes Box Office

Author:Diane Kruger

“I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.”

World Want War Speak Born Week Boxes War Of The Worlds World War Ii

Author:Diane Kruger

“What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.”

People Thinking Long Has Beens Made Matter Jobs Actors Office Hollywood Boxes Think Of You Box Office

Author:Diane Kruger

“I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.”

Thinking Way Play Character Actors Boxes Guts Really Great Great Actors Outside The Box Meticulous

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.”

Artist Conscious Boxes Great Things Compliment Rapper

Author:Talib Kweli

“I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.”

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.”

Ifs Mind Kind Has Beens Made Film Office Paid Boxes Mind Set Box Office Box Office Success

Author:Jessica Lange

“I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.”

Wanted Boxes

Author:Queen Latifah

“It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'”

Should May Causes Plans Kissing Boxes Family And Friends Bye Good Bye

Book:No Cure for Cancer

Source: No Cure for Cancer

“The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.”

Ifs Men Writing Kind Different Term Views Common Watches Discipline Taste Office Critics Boxes Critique Common Man Box Office Reviewers

Author:Ang Lee

“Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?”

Whole Boxes Nine Salt Yards Baking Soda Flour Baking Soda

Author:Sandra Lee

“On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.”

Ifs Wanted Three Taxes Mark Blind Boxes Income Checks Inches Blindness Income Tax

Author:Tom Lehrer

“When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.”

Ifs Looks Mirrors Shoes Boxes Likes

Author:Christian Louboutin

“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.”

Ifs Hands Lasts Girl Walks Boys Millions Scene Office Add Boxes Sunset Hand In Hand Boy And Girl Box Office Happy Girl

Author:George Lucas

“Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.”

Ifs Littles Film Moving Rooms Gone Television Fit Boxes

Author:George Lucas

“Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.”

Ifs Littles Ideas Sometimes Bits Fit Little Bit Boxes Studios

Author:David Lynch

“Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.”

Different Youth Office Projects Late Hollywood Boxes Corporate Mentality 80s Box Office Different Mentality

Author:Marlee Matlin

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