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“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.”

“When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.”

Age Talent Genius Paper Profession Immigration Papers

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.”

Matter Reading Enjoy Talking Opinion Information Industry Paper News Papers Blogs Pundits

Author:Megyn Kelly

“I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.”

Paper Summer My Family Rounds University Burden Milk Shelves Saturday Supermarkets Stacking

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the Earth can sustain.”

Seems Earth Numbers Limits Paper Bureaucracy Ecological Weavers

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.”

“When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.”

Knows Writing Book Enough Might Class Paper Newspapers Good Enough Articles Great Writers English Class

Author:Barack Obama

“Democrats are channeling their frustration with America's imminent military victory in Afghanistan into hysterical opposition to reasonable national security measures at home. (Incidentally, this ought to prove once and for all what a bunch of paper tigers the Russians are. What were they doing over there for 10 years? It hasn't taken us 10 weeks.)”

“The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.”

Thinking Believe Policy Paper Divides Foreign Policy American Foreign Policy

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.”

Way Feels Doe Fall Boys Paper Summer Pens Discouraging Death Coming

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.”

“In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on.”

Thinking Heart Done Play Actors Games Bits Break Paper Sensitive Reviews Papers Break Your Heart Bad Reviews Brokenhearted

Author:Phil Daniels

“You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.”

Thinking Men Humans Heart Said Talking Fate Crazy Fronts Paper Pages Corruption Criminals Human Heart Pondering Lunatic

Book:Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.”

Knows Enough Stories Light America Used Next Father Enjoy Born Interesting Cold Paper Towns Yeah Used To Be Barack Beer Relax Good Enough Tall Next Time Supporter True Story Very Popular

Author:Conan O'Brien

“If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.”

Ifs Done House Havens Paper Bathroom Toilets Slides Toilet Paper

Author:Paul Merton

“I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.”

Writing Doe Paper Pens Mail Pals One Tree Hill Opening

Author:Hilarie Burton

“Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.”

Source: Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times

“Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.”

Writing Night Next Activity Paper Wake Up Accomplish Lists Manage Sheets Next Day

Author:Earl Nightingale

“My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.”

Firsts Feelings Attitude Paper Absurd

Author:Arthur Compton

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.”

Years Two White Silence Minutes Solitude Paper Terror Desks White Paper

Author:Erica Jong

“Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.”

Ifs Want Book Real Spirit Sex Easy Sweet Paper Worship Lays Jew Innocent Grass Strings Ink Glue Rogues Sap Sprouts Assemblage Real Books Ruffian Pheromones

Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.”

People Perfect Paper Unions Soviet Soviet Union Toilets Toilet Paper

Book:Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .

Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .

“When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.”

Feels Writing May Felt Our Lives Paper Okay Over You Pens Vague

Author:Julia Cameron

“Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them”

Pieces Paper Papers Great Business

Author:Warren Buffett

“The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.”

Should States Government Rights Paper Saving Exclusive Discounts

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.”

Wells Jobs Company Known Internet Paper London Locals Well Known Papers Telecommunications

Author:Neil Oliver

“The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.”

Wells Different Pieces Paper Rejected Fragments Turned Down

Author:Rod Serling

“I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.”

Knows Writing Film Know How Pieces Needed Easier Paper Access Shy Filmmaking Pencils

Author:Paul Auster

“I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“Other than my Instagram - very recently - I'm not out there. I'm not in the papers every week, I've managed to curb all that. I've never turned up at a party just to be snapped. It's not my kind of thing.”

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Author:Dizzee Rascal

“When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.”

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Author:Stuart J. Russell

“To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.”

Thinking Trying Made Consciousness Progress Fields Paper Publishing Papers

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?”

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Author:Hal Holbrook

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

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Author:Juan Ramon Jimenez

“My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always that refusal to settle in one place, or one discipline or medium.”

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Author:Roselee Goldberg

“If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.”

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Author:William Davis

“In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room. Well now when you walk up to the door there's nothing there. Except maybe a folder with their name on it so you know who's in the room.”

Knows Wells Would Be Names Walks Rooms Doors Paper Patient Folders

Author:William Davis

“When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.”

Kind Memories Records Paper Patient Various Our Memories

Author:William Davis

“In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.”

Found Records Huge Ten Office Paper Percent Delay

Author:William Davis

“As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned, but you almost benefit from it. The bummer is all of the incredible educators. Nobody is writing about them. They are on the frontlines still, to this day, fighting to reinstate those programs.”

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Author:Matt de la Pena

“You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the wall and when you're done, you put the toilet paper in there and seal that up.”

Done Space Fronts Wall Paper Ships Toilets Vacuums Seals Toilet Paper

Author:Mike Mullane

“Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.”

People Stories Reality Asks Paper Murder Killing Coffee Covered Killers Homicide

Author:Charles Bowden

“I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it's sort of crappy now. It's always just you and the page. That doesn't change.”

Thinking Jobs Paper Pages Ink Typewriters Ink And Paper

Author:Colson Whitehead

“In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect on the economics of the game. But whether people are buying them on paper or downloading them there's still some poor wretch in a room who is trying to write a poem, write a story, write a novel. And so my job doesn't change. It's just how people receive it and economic conditions on the ground change, but that doesn't affect what I write.”

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Author:Colson Whitehead

“I worked in a paper mill all my adult life and there were a lot of funny guys there. So you pick up on that. Even though something really bad might have happened to somebody you can still make a joke out of it.”

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Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.”

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Author:Denis Hayes

“I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.”

Writing Pain Song Deals Emotional Personality Paper Emotional Pain Admitting

Author:India.Arie

“I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.”

People Ifs Way Writing Mean Ideas House Sound Pieces Paper News Gas Great Idea

Author:Biz Stone

“I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.”

Knows Want Mother Forget Pieces Information Paper Slave Grandfather Agriculture Employed Forget It County Georgia Hardy Census Great Grandfather

Author:Laura Lippman

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