Equipment Quotes

• It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Use, Littles

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• If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

  Sally Rand

  Trying, Care, Ifs

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• People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

  Christopher Morley

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

  Delia Smith

  Kitchen, Pay, Lasts

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• We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Insane, Littles, Too Much

  "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse". Documentary, www.imdb.com. November 27, 1991.

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• Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

  Carl Levin

  Jobs, Men, Safety

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• As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Block, Everyday

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• I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

  Terry Riley

  Technology, Dancer, Tape

  Interview with Gamall Awad and Ammon Haggerty, www.qaswa.com. October 9, 1992.

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• That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Football, Hockey, Games

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Old Song, Comfortable

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• Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

  Bob Graham

  War, Years, Iraq

  "Cheney’s Trouble with the Truth" by Robert Scheer, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2005.

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• China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

  Charles Bass

  Tools, Machines, Computer

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• With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

  John Entwistle

  Bass, Vibrations, Ends

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• Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Special, Far Away, Planets

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• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

  Jack Adams

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

  Michael Oxley

  Military, Cutting, Marine

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• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina

  Ike Skelton

  Home, Suffering, Emergencies

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• Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

  Christopher Bond

  Thinking, Iraq, Battle

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• Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

  John Amery

  Air, Three, Arms

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• Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.

  Chad Smith

  Keys, Play, Quality

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• Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

  Fred Allen

  Art, Two, Gnats

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• The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Home, People, Soul

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.11, Routledge

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• I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches

  Sergei Bubka

  Cost, Pay, Vaults

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• In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

  Julia Child

  Food, Men, People

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• Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

  Joan Crawford

  Survival, Hollywood, Faces

  Joan Crawford (2017). “A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford”, p.73, Pickle Partners Publishing

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