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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Work, Long, Rather

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.
Mitt Romney

Said, Around, Here

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
Barack Obama

Country, Energy, Another

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

Government, Important, Big

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew Barrymore

Powerful, Words, Old

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Write, Three

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. Milne

Money, Business, State

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.
Ellen DeGeneres

Someone, Him, Why

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Chief Joseph

Home, Give, Days

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beautiful, Cannot, Few

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.
Mick Jagger

Care, Thoughtful, Longer

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
Stephen Fry

Friends, Knew, Seen

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
Ang Lee

Life, Money, Try

I love to collect modern art.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Art, Modern

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
Sally Ride

Space, Running, Olympics

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong

Fighting, Dead, Shall

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.
Channing Tatum

Life, Great, Through

I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag.
Jessica Simpson

Find, Keep, Lucky

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Mos Def

Positive, Art, Healing

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Game, Together, Different

I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.
Haruki Murakami

Happy, Walk, Taking

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Sam Ewing

Money, Government, Between

With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.
Katherine Jenkins

Success, Time, Good

We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.
Mario Batali

Beautiful, Perfect, Put

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
Gary Numan

Films, Fantasy, Wall

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher Columbus

Great, Truth, Purpose

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
Leon Panetta

Government, Important, American

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.
Phil Collins

Else, Grace, Actually

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'
Sherri Shepherd

Family, Giving, Idea

I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
Nathan Fillion

Money, Book, Problem

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