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“Services were held today for Ken Lay - convicted thief and crook Ken Lay.They folded his arms across his chest and sowed his sleeves together so he couldn't put his hands in anyone's pockets when they walked by. You know when they say in a eulogy, "You're all richer for having known him." I don't think they're going to hear that.”

Thinking Knows Hands Today Together Known Arms Lays Pockets Chests Thieves Sleeves Eulogy Crooks

Author:Jay Leno

“I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.”

Needs Lasts Cutting Suits Pockets Closets Reminders

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.”

People Want Mind China Pockets Shallow

Author:Jack Ma

“Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of those for whom the pay is the first consideration, and who scorn to sacrifice immediate profit for the freedom of development of their own concept. Moreover, this inner development, important and indispensable as it may be to the world of science in the future, generally does not have the tendency to put a single cent into the pockets of their employers.”

World Firsts May Doe Has Beens Important Past Results Pay Sacrifice Development Concepts Paid Profit Tendencies Consideration Pockets Cents Indispensable Scorn Employers

Author:Norbert Wiener

“Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?”

Men Doe Found Deeds Titles Pockets Strife Defects Register

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.”

Done Fighting Risk Drink Fortune Gentleman Pockets Pounds Rough Cruise

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.”

Looks Heart Real Use Share Patient Muscles Pockets Devices Tested Valve Stethoscope Ultrasounds

Author:Eric Topol

“I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Firsts Guy Minutes Bored Pockets Shut Up Laurels

Author:Paul McCartney

“I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.”

Wanted Player Basketball Pockets Pizza Basketball Player

Author:Boi-1da

“I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant.”

“We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.”

Thinking Feels Use Opportunity Strong Records Stupid Track Holes Dry Pockets Cash Strategic Acquisition Powder Track Record

Author:Steve Jobs

“I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.”

Ifs Looks Persons Matter Talking Red Agree Noses Pockets Disagree

Author:Bernie Glassman

“I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just as privacy advocates point out that we're paying with our time and our data. We're also paying with money, because the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising is just factored into the cost of the goods that we buy. It's all coming out of our pocket, just in a really roundabout way.”

People Way Facts Cost Dollars Billions Advertising Data Our Time Privacy Pockets Goods Coming Out

Author:Astra Taylor

“The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.”

People Common Break Pages Pockets Complaints Pencils Blades Sharpener

Author:David Rees

“I have a bet with my mom that involves a little money, and if I have too many turnovers, she gets in my pocket. I'm afraid of that for sure.”

Ifs Littles Mom My Mom Pockets Little Money Turnover

Author:Stephen Curry

“You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.”

Feels Littles Shows America Certain Bits Little Bit Racism Starting Ease Pockets Right Time Cosby Show

Author:Adam McKay

“We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because they're spending a lot of money. If we can't get a show up and deliver with what we almost intrinsically have in our brains and our pockets, then I don't really want to do it.”

Ifs Want Shows Simple Rooms Brain Spending Pockets Lots Of Money Respectable Spending A Lot Of Money

Author:Will Oldham

“When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.”

Said Mindset Pockets Mercenary

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“He [Andy warhol] went out every evening to five or six parties with a tape recorder in one pocket and a camera with extra film and batteries in the other pocket, constantly recording and photographing everyone he came across.”

Film Party Five Six Cameras Evening Extras Pockets Tape Batteries Warhol Recorders

Author:Bob Colacello

“I never had a checkbook. It used to be cash in hand, stuff in the pocket, or a manager would keep some accounts and give me money. I started to wonder what it must feel like to actually make a profit, pay taxes, and to have a phone listing, and a manager. And also, I was sick of sleeping around every night.”

Giving Feels Hands Used Night Stuff Sleep Pay Wonder Taxes Sick Accounts Give Me Phones Profit Used To Be Managers Pockets Cash Every Night Sleeping Around

Author:Iggy Pop

“I think it`s a message of economic nationalism. It`s obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it`s never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.”

Thinking Today Certain Powerful Economic Messages Pockets Nationalism Phenomenon

Author:Ben Domenech

“Well, there are certain pockets of improvement. The one that I think is most important is that state and local law enforcement levels have started to do a lot more educative efforts within their organizations to understand the kind of threat we're facing. They've given up on the federal level.”

Thinking Wells Kind Important States Law Certain Given Levels Effort Organization Threat Improvement Locals Pockets Law Enforcement Enforcement Given Up

Author:Michael Scheuer

“Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.”

Song Universe Huge Lessons Instruments Pockets

Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Country Growth Poor Economic Policy Taxes Add Environmental Pockets More Money Carbon Slow Down Consensus Economic Growth Minus Environmental Policy Carbon Tax

Author:Christy Clark

“My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.”

Wife My Wife Pockets Very Happy

Author:Craig Finn

“I worry about that terribly because the public eye can bring all sorts of unwanted intrusions and problems. But he's treading his own path. I think the modeling is something that Rafferty Law sees as a pastime and something to maybe give him a bit of pocket money. He's a musician mostly. He's in college studying music, which he takes very seriously and I think that is something that he will concentrate on in the future.”

Thinking Giving Problem Eye Law Bits Worry Study Path College Musician Pockets Modeling Unwanted Pastime Public Eye Intrusion Treading Studying Music

Author:Jude Law

“Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas!”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Sides Pieces Directors Asking Uncomfortable Parks The End Of The Day Pockets Clothings Slips Pajamas

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes.”

Giving Trying Hard Hands Vote Dollars Administration Barack Pockets Handouts

Author:Ted Cruz

“As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label because now labels will have their hands in your pocket and leave you with less control.”

Way Needs Hands Artist Labels Pockets New Ways New Artists

Author:Ashanti

“How is it having more control if you have less money in your pocket as Martin Lewis Moneysaving expert says?”

Ifs Experts Pockets

Author:Sadiq Khan

“When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.”

Jobs Economy Cost Workers Locals Productive Pockets More Money Reducing Turnover

Author:David Rolf

“In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.”

Hard States Four Cutting Hard Work Taxes Dollars Billions Saving Pockets Senate More Money Savings Tax Cuts Iowa

Author:Joni Ernst

“Besides hot pockets keeps introducing new products every 10 minutes so I always have new stuff on the topic.”

Stuff Minutes Products Hot Pockets Introducing Topics New Products New Stuff Introducing New

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.”

People Shows Seems Cases Theater Hot Size Boxes Suits Pockets Sense Of Humor Good Sense Paramount Wmd Denver Good Sense Of Humor

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I had intended to make another film, called Pocket Money, which was to be about children at a school. I was very much intrigued by the story [of Close Up] - it came into my dreams and I was very much influenced by it. So I called my producer and asked that we put aside Pocket Money and start something else, and he agreed.”

Children Stories Dream School Film Producers Pockets Intrigued

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I guess the closest I came was doing chores around the house to earn pocket money. My brother and I would have to do the washing up, cleaning around the house, walking my grandparents' dog, lots of things. We didn't get a huge amount but it was always enough to be able to walk down to the local shops and get some sweets.”

Enough Able House Walks Dog Sweet Brother Huge Amount Walking Locals My Brother Shops Pockets Closest Grandparent Cleaning Washing Chores

Author:Andy Murray

“Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.”

Republican Democrat Officials Pockets County Alabama Elected Officials

Author:Jeff Sessions

“Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.”

Bears Burden Pockets

Author:Brandi Carlile

“We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.”

“There's no unicorns that pop out the ceiling and no glitter that pops out of my pocket. It's just regular people in the studio doing what we do.”

People Studios Pops Pockets Ceilings Glitter Unicorn

Author:B.J. The Chicago Kid

“There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow the money and the more you'll be able to see that payments for mineral rights in poor countries actually go to the people who need it, and don't get put into a kleptocrat's pocket. Transparency is terribly important for us.”

People World Needs Important Country Able Poor Rights Revolution Pockets Payment Transparency Sweeping Minerals Poor Countries

Author:Michael Elliott

“Raising the federal minimum wage won't just put more money in the pocket of low-income families - it also means they spend more money at the businesses in their neighborhoods. [Donald] Trump's against that as well.”

Wells Mean Trump Lows Income Pockets Neighborhood More Money Minimum Minimum Wage Low Income

Author:Hillary Clinton

“[Gigi Does It show] flew so drastically under the radar. I kind of hold it in my back pocket as this thing that I got the opportunity to do that no one really knows I did and that I'm really proud of.”

Knows Kind Doe Shows Opportunity Proud Pockets Flew Radar

Author:David Krumholtz

“The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.”

Faces Empty Pockets Thieves Traveller Empty Pockets

Author:Juvenal

“It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.”

Russia Pockets Polite

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.”

Writing Ideas Running Stuff Paper Corners Stores Pockets Bags Juice Notebook Transfers Paper Bags

Author:Jay-Z

“The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas”

States Walking Billions Pockets Gambling Vegas Las Vegas Casinos Walking Out

Author:John Warren Kindt

“I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are adept at snatching things off a person as they ride by, but I personally have never seen it. Funny though, I don't hear folks talk about pick pockets but it's happened to me twice. Beware of that cute little sweetheart and stay away from those talented little hands.”

Littles Persons Hands Cities Happened Picks Folks Hearing Cute Pockets Belonging Warning Thieves Sweetheart Adept Motorbike Little Hands

Author:Doug Rice

“Jamaica is one of the most musically influential nations in the world. Throughout the entire globe, there are pockets that are constantly in touch with what goes on in the dancehall community, from Germany to Japan, to different parts of Africa like Ghana.”

World Different Nations Community Goes On Germany Pockets Japan Globes Influential Jamaica Ghana Dancehall

Author:Kreesha Turner

“I don't need no extra hands in my pocket.”

Needs Hands Extras Pockets

Author:Donnis

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