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• ... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.

  Phil Lesh

  Music, Grateful, Different

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• Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Film History, Space

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage

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• But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following:
  a) They are not built by human beings..
  b) They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity..
  c) They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes.

  Hermann Oberth

  Strong, Mean, Air

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• If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

  Walter Russell

  Tired, Thinking, Sick

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• Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. If you feel that you can't smile, stand before a mirror and with your fingers pull your mouth into a smile. It is that important!

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mirrors, Joy, Important

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• And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldnt it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Light, Numbers

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.81, Penguin

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• At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Limits, Speed

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 109, 1988.

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• Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Dog, Home, Thinking

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• The music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up.

  Mark Knopfler

  Music, Song, Play

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• Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

  Barney Kessel

  Music, Christian, Guitar

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• Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by the view from our elevation - off west the lights of Montana, Hungry Horse, and Columbia Falls, and farmsteads along the northern edge of Flathead Lake, and back in the direction of sunrise the soft and misted valleys of the parklands, not an electric light showing: little enough to preserve for the wanderings of a great and sacred animal who can teach us, if nothing else, by his power and his dilemma, a little common humility.

  William Kittredge

  Horse, Fall, Sleep

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• When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was like "What is this?" At that moment, I could've been written off. But I had to believe because I really love what I do. I'm passionate about it. If 12 million recognize it, that's beautiful. If 12,000 do, that's beautiful. But I'm always going to put my heart and soul in it and I'm going to shoot for the stars and go for the highest levels of recognition and creativity. I definitely doubted myself at the time. But it always come back to believing what I do.

  Common

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

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• First of all, who's your A&R?
  A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?
  But he don't know the meaning of dope,
  When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap
  That's cleaner than a bar of soap!
  And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight,
  Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.

  GZA

  Girl, Rap, Fighting

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• We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.

  Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

  Army, Men, Thinking

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• You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

  Andy Warhol

  Wall, Color, People

  "Andy Warhol: In His Own Words". Book by Mike Wrenn, 1991.

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• An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices.

  Ralph Cavanagh

  Choices, Climate, Dollars

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• I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

  Nikola Tesla

  Lamps, Electric Current, Brightness

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• In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

  Ry Cooder

  Music, Taken, Guitar

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• A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

  Alexander Calder

  Moving, Electric Motors, Hands

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• From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be possible to write the conclusion if a theory will be established which will determine the value of the fine structure constant and will thus explain the atomistic structure of electricity, which is such an essential quality of all atomic sources of electric fields actually occurring in nature.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Believe, Writing, Views

  "Writings on Physics and Philosophy".

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• I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

  Glenn Hughes

  Mom, Rocks, Guitar

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• In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles, there wouldn't be electrification and reservoirs and water purification.  These are processes that help all people. And processes that help single people is a very primitive value system carried into this century, which is really not necessary.

  Jacque Fresco

  Men, Light, Self

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• You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

  Shai Agassi

  Car, Computer, Grids

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• The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.

  Warren Hern

  Abortion, Electric Current, Flow

  Speech at the Associations of Planned Parenthood Physicians meeting, San Diego, October 26, 1978.

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• There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  Important, Scales, Force

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