Assembly Line Quotes - Page 2

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

Ray Davies

Rock And Roll, Lines, Corporations

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Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

Pope Francis

Office, Everyday, Lines

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There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.

Merle Haggard

Kids, Guitar, Two

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We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.

Barack Obama

Zero, Dirty, Past

Barack Obama's remarks at University of California-Irvine Commencement Ceremony at the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 14, 2014.

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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

George Packer

Age, Lines, Invisibility

"Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Studs Terkel

Jobs, People, Lines

Studs Terkel (2007). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, The New Press

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Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Country, Believe, Issues

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Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

Nancy Mairs

Children, Car, Soul

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Most of today's film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line and whose uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breasts, teeth, eyelashes, and hair.

Helen Lawrenson

Hair, Eyelashes, Age

Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

Michael De Luca

Lines, Projects, Producers

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Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.

Mike Rogers

Lines, Firsts, November

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There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Creativity, Simple, Engineering

"Masterminds of Programming Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages". Book by Shane Warden, Federico Biancuzzi, March 2009.

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SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That is indeed each person's mission. You begin by working in that area of activity that is your own unique one, with your own life and activities. You begin in the corner of an office, or on the assembly line, or in the advertising agency, or in the kitchen. You begin where you are.

Jane Roberts

Change, Unique, Agency

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People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It’s boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you’re a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.

Mark Sutton

Character, People, Ceilings

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If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say?

Ted Nugent

Mad, Body, Lines

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There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

Lester Thurow

Teamwork, Successful, Moon

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A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

John Medina

Jobs, Bored, Lines

Source: bobmorris.biz

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The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

Rollo May

Lines, Lovers, Poet

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Perfection seems sterile;
It is final, no mystery in it;
It's a product of an assembly line.

Dejan Stojanovic

Perfection, Finals, Lines

"Imperfection". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

Douglas Rushkoff

Apples, Pace, Potters

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In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don't have to struggle that much.

Vir Das

Struggle, Unique, People

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And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

George McGovern

Hard Work, Land, Lines

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I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

Michael Moore

Confused, Taken, Lines

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Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

Ilka Chase

Hands, Oil, Skulls

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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Alvin Toffler

Years, Wife, Criticism

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