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“Osama bin laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that's probably cost almost nothing.”

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Author:Richard Engel

“My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.”

People Definitions Boxes Stuck Defined Beloved Defining Defining Myself

Author:Wentworth Miller

“I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.”

People Thinking Want Important Hard Film Actors Watches Millions Five Depends Office Boxes Related Box Office More The Merrier Box Office Success

Author:Rani Mukerji

“My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.”

Firsts Acting Roles Stage Goes On Boxes Shy Covered Costumes Robots Cardboard Boxes

Author:Jessica Raine

“Its so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.”

Important Limits Boxes Finding Yourself

Author:Ashanti

“Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.”

Knows Writing America Taken Comfort Boxes Immigrants Comfort And Happiness

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.”

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Book:Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

“Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.”

Enough Bigs Empty Boxes Thrown

Book:Carl Sandburg

Source: Carl Sandburg

“Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.”

People Energy Internet Boxes Fascinating Vehicle Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Jon Anderson

“In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.”

Humans Form Emotion Building Demand Boxes Architecture Human Emotions

Author:Kenzo Tange

“I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.”

Boxes Chairs Lunch Corpses Grandma Folding

Book:Crow Fair: Stories

Source: Crow Fair: Stories

“From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.”

Knows Humanity Belief Oneself Boxes Contrary Symbols Greek Resignation Stirring Pandora Pandora's Box

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.”

Ifs Done Boxes

Author:Sammy Hagar

“We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntactical units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us.”

Heart Littles Matter Turns Black Lines Perfect Crosses Boxes Plenty Daily Life Units Ants Upside Down Baudelaire

Author:John Granger

“I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.”

People Feels I Can Helping House Sex Church Fire Ought Boxes Valuable Setting Settings Convince Destroying

Author:Millicent Fawcett

“They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.”

Used Differences Money Numbers Security Havens Changed Boxes Call Me Nuts Eccentric I Haven't Changed

Author:Al McGuire

“I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.”

Ifs Want Lost Chance Missing Ready Flow Boxes Second Chance Ebb And Flow

Author:Bob Harper

“The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.”

“You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.”

People Matter Film Chance Office Boxes Box Office Box Office Success

Author:Ice Cube

“When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!”

Trying Mind Looks Opportunity Challenges Struggle Plans Possibility Solutions Boxes Arise Necks Great Opportunity Outside The Box

Author:Richard Branson

“As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.”

People Thinking Important Real Remember Gay Laughter Illusion Boxes Queens Drag Gay People Outside The Box Irreverent Drag Queen

Author:RuPaul

“When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.”

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Author:Michael Baumgartner

“I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.”

Ifs Mother Danger Boxes Abortion Questionnaires

Author:Michael Baumgartner

“I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.”

People Wells Looks Long Made I Can Book Sometimes Done Bigs Easy Drink Bed Tables Boxes Alcohol Coffee Lifts Kill Me Well Done Very Beautiful Tombstone Gravestone I Can Read Bodybuilder

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.”

People Want Boxes

Author:Elizabeth Meriwether

“In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.”

Mind Dark Four Planets Sweet Baby Rose Fishes Boxes Woods Graves Fats Kitchen Lakes Swim Cake Sweat Candle Stem Soap Dolls Ripe Puff Figs Bouquets Peppermint Glow In The Dark

Book:Music of the Swamp

Source: Music of the Swamp

“Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas”

People Thinking World Ideas Bigs Challenges Currents Boxes Limitation Norm Dilemma Big Ideas Outside The Box Think Outside The Box Forward Thinking

Book:Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

Source: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

“People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Long Doe Office Agree Boxes Proven Delivering Good Movie Box Office Criticise

Author:Brett Ratner

“Ive got tapes that Im so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. Ive got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.”

Knows Mean Made Home Father Fine Careful Boxes Diamond Tape

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.”

Writing Looks Stills Emotional Research Boxes Ships Manifest Grandfather Grandparent Behalf Paperwork Great Grandfather

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.”

Used Bits Boxes

Author:Alexander Hanson

“I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.”

Basketball Boxes Outside The Box

Author:Grant Hill

“The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.”

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Author:Aubrey de Grey

“Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.”

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Author:Chuck Jones

“My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.”

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Author:Joe Mande

“The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'”

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Author:Donald Miller

“There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.”

Thinking May Boxes Pitcher Intimidated Knuckleballs

Author:Phil Niekro

“I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Hands Guy Speech Boxes Riot Luke Newman

Author:Brian Helgeland

“I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.”

People Thinking Book Care Jobs Reader Including Boxes Reviews I Care Cereal

Author:Lisa Scottoline

“The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder.”

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Author:Charles Comiskey

“LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.”

People Want Littles Doe Ends Names Progress Information Like You Percent Tasks Boxes Bars Checks Linkedin

Author:Jesse Schell

“Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.”

Life Is Forever Empty Remains Filled Boxes Misplaced

Author:Margaret Mazzantini

“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.”

Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

“Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.”

Thinking Bigs Might Running Levels Wall Succeed Lifetime Boxes

Author:Gary W. Keller

“What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.”

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Author:Joel Siegel

“If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.”

People Ifs Feels Ideas Real Whole Home Stuff Seeing Normal Sitting Trade Boxes Boring Toys New Things New Ideas Boring Life

Author:Alex Day

“It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.”

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Author:Robert Benchley

“A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."”

Giving Littles Modern Give Me Presses Boxes Bars Rats Modern Life Psychologist Skinner

Author:Jess Lair

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