Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"There's nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box."
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Boxes
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Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice."
Will Thomas
Author
"To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."
will.i.am
Musician, Producer
"I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with."
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"People always try to box you in to what they know you best for."
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"The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change."
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"Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that."
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"My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in."
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"If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is."
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"The box is only temporary."
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"I get out, I get out of all your boxes."
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"I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box."
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"You have to think outside the box."
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"The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!"
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"Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives."
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"You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches."
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"I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging."
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"Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain."
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"The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing."
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"Nine in the box... that's a football term."
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"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw."
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"If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more."
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"Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?"
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"Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full."
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