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“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.”

People Life Is Missing Color Boxes Fancy Life Is Like Crayon Colors Of Life Periwinkle Sharpener Magenta Vibrant Colors

Author:John Mayer

“I think it’s very comforting for people to put me in a box. ‘Oh, she’s a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.’”

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Author:Marissa Mayer

“I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.”

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Author:Kevin McCloud

“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”

“It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.”

People Important Hard Feelings Bigs Able Walks Deals Watches Too Much Nice Products Hard Work Pride Fame Boxes Worthy Honestly Cake Being Nice Big Deal Icing Icing On The Cake

Author:Christopher Meloni

“I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.”

Want Office Boxes Grants Gamble Gamer Box Office

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I box a lot, I spin and I surf. I try to mix it up. I obviously have to be in shape 24 hours and the gym can be super monotonous, so I just get outside and try to make it fun so my body doesn't get bored.”

Trying Body Fun Hours Shapes Boxes Bored Gym Surf Monotonous

Author:Marisa Miller

“For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.”

Humans Certain Human Beings Secret Objects Boxes Intense Cigarette Secret Life

Author:Joan Miro

“I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.”

Results Principles Boxes London Devices Mixing Gum Chewing Inspection Chewing Gum

Author:Cecil Beaton

“When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.”

Ought Boxes Evening Retirement Retiring Burned Retired Funny Retirement Fireplaces Retirement Humor

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.”

People Thinking Want Needs Ideas Ordinary Unions Boxes Good Ideas Suggestions Ordinary People Suggestion Boxes

Author:Frances O'Grady

“If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.”

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Author:Nick Offerman

“Staying out of the penalty box will really help.”

Helping Boxes Staying Penalties Stay Strong

Author:Bobby Orr

“Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.”

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Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.”

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Author:Michael Behe

“The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Writing Hate Black Views Opinion Records Perspective I Hate Boxes Conviction Who I Am Things I Love Anthem Things I Hate Black Boxes

Author:Katy Perry

“Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.”

Believe Care Numbers Office Don't Believe Boxes Don't Care I Don't Care Hype Lanes Box Office

Author:Tyler Perry

“I just don't fit into the box.”

Fit Boxes

Author:Liz Phair

“Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.”

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Author:Michael Phelps

“From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.”

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Author:Richie Benaud

“When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.”

Strong Friendship Money Doors Boxes Flatterer

Author:Plutarch

“I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.”

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Author:Paula Poundstone

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”

Thinking Life Mind Beautiful Belief Creativity Evidence Boxes Encouraging Enthusiastic Of My Mind Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.”

Boxes Monday Lasagna Garfield

Author:Chris Pratt

“How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.”

People Way Ends Rooms Glasses Boxes Graves Shrinks Tourists Living Room Tourism Backyards

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.”

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Author:Charles Rangel

“Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings a certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.”

Thinking Long Sometimes Reality Certain Pieces Boxes Freshness

Author:Robert Redford

“I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.”

Thinking Involved Office Boxes Box Office Showbiz

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.”

I Can Different Actors Grows Acting Style Type Directors Tools Boxes Meaningful Mediums Different Styles Tool Boxes

Author:Christina Ricci

“I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.”

Fun Acting Office Boxes Ran Boards Lighting Spotlight Box Office

Author:Tim Robbins

“Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.”

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Author:Joe Rogan

“So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.”

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Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.”

Hollywood Boxes

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I love doing collaborations - it's always good to do something that's out the box.”

Boxes Collaboration

Author:Kelly Rowland

“I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!”

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Author:Halle Berry

“It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.”

Years Art Past Space New York Painting Boxes Enormous Fifteen Aesthetics Fifteen Years Immaculate Installation

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.”

Littles Shows Seems Four Boxes Studios Decades Bottles Apartment Slow Down Jars Vases Nicholson Down Time Bologna

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.”

Thinking Mind Long Process Materials Boxes Remove Exotic Deadline Variables Outside The Box

Author:Adam Savage

“In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.”

Ifs Seems Black Simple Teach Path Car Theory Boxes Fuel Shore Engines Straightforward Electrical Tracing Unreachable Black Boxes

Author:Adam Savage

“Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.”

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Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”

Thinking Way Innovation Boxes Limitation Constraints Frugality Business Innovation Innovation And Business

Author:Jeff Bezos

“People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.”

Goal Family Boxes Contact

Author:Richard G. Scott

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