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  • Paperwork will ruin any military force. -- Chesty Puller
  • We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wernher von Braun
  • I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. -- Peter De Vries
  • Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. -- Tom Conti
  • Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists. -- Robert H. Meltzer
  • Paperwork wouldnâ??t be so bad if it werenâ??t for all the paper. And the work. -- Darynda Jones
  • For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. -- Tony Abbott
  • I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. -- Lee Child
  • Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. -- Christopher Bond
  • It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. -- Frank Zappa
  • The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time. -- Connie Willis
  • Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. -- Fred Saberhagen
  • So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job. -- Monica Lewinsky
  • Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way. -- Dorothy Day
  • The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior. -- Rick Santorum
  • I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork. -- Gabrielle Zevin
  • I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
  • No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork. -- Bill Gates
  • Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. -- Joe Orton
  • Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway. -- John Stossel
  • Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside. -- Scott Simon
  • I refuse to confirm or deny anything about any deal to purchase an American NHL franchise and move it to Canada until I've completed all of the paperwork and the deal is closed. -- Jim Balsillie
  • Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses. -- Michael K. Simpson
  • I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while. -- Sebastian Bach
  • A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her -- a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light. -- Danielle Crittenden
  • It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia. -- Frank Zappa
  • Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally. -- Gretchen Rubin
  • Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times. -- Karen Mills
  • The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -- Pearl Bailey
  • I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down. -- Cherie Lunghi
  • Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency. -- Michael Ramirez
  • To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. -- William Hague
  • When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately. -- Ali Landry
  • My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in. -- Mike Vogel
  • But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. -- Adriana Trigiani
  • I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified. -- John Sununu
  • The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork. -- Kay Hagan
  • Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market. -- Gail Collins
  • My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters. -- Lincoln Child
  • Life's been nothing but paperwork. -- Gustav Mahler
  • The world is full of dumb paperwork. -- Nice Peter
  • Death should take more care with his paperwork. -- A. Lee Martinez
  • Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout. -- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
  • English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones. -- Maureen Johnson
  • When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of! -- David Twohy
  • Let's have a look at your paperwork," I said as I glanced at the neatly stacked formsMr. Crocker." -- Denise Grover Swank
  • If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork. -- Rick Riordan
  • I'm going to shoot somebody," Maddie said. "Sawyer hates when people do that. It's a whole bunch of paperwork. -- Jill Shalvis
  • I'd signed six things and my stack wasn't getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked. -- Ilona Andrews
  • You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved. -- Maureen Johnson
  • When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane. -- Allison Tolman
  • Marriage is when two people love each other so much that they promise that if they ever, ever stop they'll fill out tons of paperwork. -- Eugene Mirman
  • For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring. -- Crystal Bowersox
  • So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy. -- Andy Sawford
  • If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go." -- Ann Patchett
  • If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review. -- Tom Clancy
  • President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though itâ??s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate. -- Craig Ferguson
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