Barack Obama
Politician
"Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it."
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Phones
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Miles Davis
Musician
"Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up."
Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'"
Dave Chappelle
Comedian, Actor, Writer
"No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it."
Robin Sharma
Author, Speaker
"Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity."
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"Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them."
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"Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far."
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"Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones."
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"I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written."
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"I love hanging out with people who make me forget to look at my phone."
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"Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets."
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"You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone."
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"This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?"
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"I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want"
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"I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us."
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"Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single day during our relationship, no matter where in the world I was, I'd get a telegram from Frank saying he loved me and missed me. He was a man who was deseperate for companionship and love. Can you wonder that he always had mine!"
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"For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off."
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"Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers"
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"I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional."
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"I'll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I'll make you happy."
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"Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen."
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"I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people."
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"Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal."
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"All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer."
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"[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again."
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