"If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do."
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"I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't."
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"Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable."
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"I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'"
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"All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material."
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"The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?"
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"I get all excited when I think that someone's 1-900 sex call from a cell phone might be passing through my body right now."
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"Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters."
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"Just got back from a 5 day camping trip. No phones, no Internet, no problem. It was great. Now time for a hot shower. I absolutely reek!"
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"I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it."
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"There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints."
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"I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial."
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"The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!"
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"Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone."
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"Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing."
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"Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby."
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"When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone."
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"Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations."
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"Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi."
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"He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn’t seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked."
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