Example Quotes - Page 39

• The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.

  Steve Wozniak

  Car, Use, Benefits

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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• We have certain things where we know they exist or "everybody knows they exist," but naturally nobody can photograph them, because they are so super secret. For example, the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center exists, but nobody knows how it looks, but it's a so called bunker where he can survive a nuclear attack.

  Roland Emmerich

  Presidential, Secret, Nuclear

  Source: collider.com

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• I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live a Christian life or a Jewish life or a Muslim life or a Buddhist life, by affirming that affirmation each day. Each day you say 'Yes' to that Yes. So the life of being a Christian for example, is always a life of double affirmation, that you each day say 'Yes' to those counter-experiences of saying 'Yes', even when you're not experiencing them at that time, you're remaining loyal to that experience.

  Kevin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  People, Sound, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.

  Wayne Coyne

  Instagram

  "The Flaming Lips on covering Sgt. Pepper's, Miley Cyrus, and never stopping". Interview with Scott Morrow, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here.

  Bill Nye

  Book, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 04, 2015.

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• Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Eye, Exercise, Issues

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• The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

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• I love the fact that Oprah Winfrey comes out number one [most admired women], regardless of who you are, because she has achieved so much in the business world. I think Republicans, for example, when Republican women rate her higher than Hillary Clinton, they obviously don't care that she supported Barack Obama.

  Michel Martin

  Thinking, Numbers, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

  Julian Assange

  Moving, Son, Names

  "Julian Assange: my life in the embassy". Interview with John Hiscock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 14, 2013.

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• Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Two, America

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

  Leonard Lance

  Issues, People, Voting

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• I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.

  Pete Carroll

  Philosophy, Persons

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• I think I can help others just by my example.

  Pat Summitt

  Helping Others, Thinking, I Can

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• The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.

  John Raese

  Jobs, Children, College

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• I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Thinking, Becoming, Terrorism

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• That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.

  Ernest Gowers

  Giving, Superstitions, Sentences

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• Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Wine, Fire

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• There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Jobs, Community, Design

  "Are robots hurting job growth?". "March of the Machines" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. January 13, 2013.

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• Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

  Joan Miro

  Fall, Drawing, Color

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• What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Horse, Plato, Pigs

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

  Danny Wallace

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

  William Blum

  War, Men, Judging

  William Blum (2014). “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else”, p.55, Zed Books Ltd.

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• I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

  Jamie Moyer

  Careers, Way, Right Way

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• The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Travel, Queens, Home

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