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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Phones

"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."

Eye Meditation Phones
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Bruce Dickinson Musician, Author, Pilot
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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."

People Phones Worst Person
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Harper Lee Novelist
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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."

Heart Book Phones
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Andy Murray Tennis Player
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"I was playing in the juniors at Wimbledon I forgot to turn my mobile phone off. It was lying there in my bag and it rang in the middle of a match, and it was one of my friends from school saying, 'Murray, you're on the telly!' I learnt from that. I now put my phone on silent."

Lying School Phones
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Patti Smith Musician
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"I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important."

Thinking Ideas Phones
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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people."

People Games Phones
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Phones

"Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net."

Thinking Talking Phones
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Debbie Reynolds Actress, Singer
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"We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories."

Stars Memories Phones
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit."

Hands Blood Phones
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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long."

Morning Tired Phones
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AJ Lee Professional Wrestler
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"Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked."

Phones Eggs Clock
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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question."

Waiting Phones Asking Questions
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Lindsey Graham Politician
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"I’m a Verizon customer. I don’t mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States. I don’t think you’re talking to the terrorists. I know you’re not. I know I’m not. So we don’t have anything to worry about."

Thinking Government Phones
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