"When the signal is weak, the phone is working more, you drain the battery faster, so only use a phone when the signal is weak in a true emergency."
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"The reality is, the way we've used phones and the amount that we've used phones has changed radically in the past five years. When phones were first marketed in the 1990s, it cost, for car phones, $3000 to buy a phone and the average person did not use it that much. They were very, very expensive."
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"I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."
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"The average studies of cellphones and brain cancer have studied people who have used cellphones for five years or less. Sometimes eight years. Every study that has actually examined people who have used phones for 10 years or more, and is well designed, finds a 50 percent to an 800 percent increased risk. So that is why the Israelis, the Finnish, the French governments have all issued warnings."
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"Get in the habit of never putting the phone next to your brain or body unless it's a true emergency."
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"You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life."
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"I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today."
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"My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good."
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"A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't"
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"The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone."
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"I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time."
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"My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths."
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"The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered."
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"I can't give my phone number out. My phone number would be everywhere - everybody and their mom would be calling me."
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"Music. I could not go without that. My mind would not let me be without music. I hiked the trail in 1995 - before there were iPods or music on our cell phones or even cell phones. So I was truly out there with just my thoughts. After a few days there was a continuous loop of songs playing silently in my mind."
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"Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect."
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"If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell."
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"and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive"
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"when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this."
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"soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not."
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