Electric Quotes - Page 21

• The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Dad, Character

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Home, America, Exhibitions

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• Suddenly I'm not half the girl
  I used to be.
  There's a shadow hanging over me . . .
  From me to you out of my electric devil.

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Fear, Shadow

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

  Horatio Nelson

  Simple, Electric Shock, Tears

  Horatio Nelson (2012). “The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters”, p.69, tredition

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• Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
  hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
  messages, galvanizing my genes.

  Etheridge Knight

  Fall, Grandfather, Red

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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• Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry's daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair.

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Daughter, Dad

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• In America, we trade more energy with our neighbors than we trade with the rest of the world combined. And I do want us to have an electric grid, an energy system that crosses borders. I think that would be a great benefit to us.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, America, Energy

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• [Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

  T Bone Burnett

  Guitar, People, Bob

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Musician, Cards

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.

  Kathy Calvin

  Country, Simple, Thinking

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• There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Home, Cutting, Years

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• Make your next car electric, put solar panels on your roof, and go vegan.

  Leilani Munter

  Car, Next, Vegan

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• Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

  Vladimir Putin

  Electric Power, Needs, Firsts

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Your electric bills will go down.

  Donald Trump

  Bills

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or oppose them. They do of course, but I don't agree with that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Support, Roles

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Economic, Modern

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

  Roy Blunt

  Hurt, Jobs, Block

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I wrote the entire history of Alpha because the space station was around for 500 years. I have 30 pages on the history of Alpha. Every ten years what happens. They took control and what happened. Every 80 years, they have to change the communication system because it doesn't work anymore. Some aliens come with new technology, and suddenly you can change the electric system. We wrote the entire story [for Valerian]

  Luc Besson

  Communication, Technology, Years

  "Interview: Luc Besson Reveals The Secrets Behind That Stunning ‘Valerian’ Trailer". Interview With Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. November 10, 2016.

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• My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Family, Growing Up

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• I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.

  Oliver Herford

  Funny, Humor, Eggs

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• I support anything that we can do, including investigations or otherwise, to protect Americans from foreign interference in all of our good work that we need to do in the United States, whether it be our elections, whether it be our businesses, whether it be our electric grids.

  Reince Priebus

  Support, United States, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I really prefer electric music.

  Syd Barrett

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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• One of the things that I think nobody's done yet is really taking advantage of the electric powertrain layout, which of course, means you don't have a gasoline engine in the front and you don't have a gas tank in the rear.

  Henrik Fisker

  Mean, Thinking, Tanks

  "Interview: Henrik Fisker talks new companies, the future of car design and ... minivans". Interview with C.C. Weiss, newatlas.com. December 24, 2016.

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• Turkey has had a customs union with Europe since 1996, and there's free trade in everything other than farm products and services. And Turkey has shown that it can compete. It's good at making cheap goods - household appliances, food, detergents, cheap clothes. And they make a lot of white goods, cheap TVs, washing machines, electric appliances, steel, and, recently, auto parts. And Turks are gradually moving into IT.

  Andrew Mango

  Moving, Trade, Free Trade

  "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Even if your skin is perfect, even if it's glowing and beautiful, electric lights defeat you. They deaden the complexion, make it look drab. They rob you of color...In the evening, you just can't play the natural kid bit, that fresh-scrubbed look.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, Kids, Light

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