#collectors

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

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A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ↗

— Jesus Christ

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There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

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I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

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I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

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When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music. ↗

— David Crosby

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A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

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