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"Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things."
"One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other."
"Tequila? It's not even a drink. It's a way for having the cops around without using a phone."
"BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book."
"As our kids are drawn into, you know, Facebook and twittering and having their own cell phone and iPod and all those things , all of those things will take up as much time as you give them. What our goal is is to help them find that natural balance so that the things of our culture don't just steal their hearts and their minds and just consume their lives."
"I don't really send text messages. I rarely carry my phone. I occasionally check messages at the end of the night, but I don't carry it around."
"Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you."
"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?"
"The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job."
"We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them."
"We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac."
"I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones."
"I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time"
"Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number."
"I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water."
"When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla."
"Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance."
"Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three."
"The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes."
"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone."
