"My wonder button is being pushed all the time."
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"Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you."
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
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"Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication."
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"That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week."
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"America: It's like Britain, only with buttons."
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"Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera."
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"[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy."
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"You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to."
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"I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!"
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"A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all."
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"People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'"
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"All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button."
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"Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button."
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"Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button."
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"I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!"
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"Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons."
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"Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters."
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"In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark."
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"i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)"
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