Electricity Quotes - Page 14

• There has been no electricity in Baghdad for a week and the people are angry. You would be angry too if you couldn't watch your brand new stolen TV.

  Craig Kilborn

  People, Tvs, Baghdad

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• And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me, amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already was. A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me. I crossed my arms tightly across my chest, my hands balling into fists. I was losing my mind.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Crazy, Hands, Perfect

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• The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

  Steven Pinker

  Blow, Oxygen, Knives

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Whether railroads or electricity or the Internet, there is always some sense that this is the new, redemptive platform - that finally, finally, we've found the platform that will allow us all to lead a democratic, global existence, where all problems will be solved. And the idea that the old platform becomes obsolete, "this kills that," and so on, also often accompanies the advent of a new technology. The digital platform is no exception.

  Keller Easterling

  Technology, Problem, Internet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence in Afghanistan. The Afghans can't point and say, "Oh, the Americans built that road. They built that telecommunications facility. They built that electricity powerhouse," because nothing has been built so far.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Problem, Economic, Afghanistan

  Source: progressive.org

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• We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Somewhere Else, Energy, Electrical

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

  Dolly Parton

  Hard Times, Animal, Years

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• I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Morning, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think one of the most difficult things about the lifestyle is that when it's winter, and there is no running water, you still have to go outside to use the bathroom. You know, we all live very comfortable, no matter what socio-economic level we're at - if you have electricity and running water, you live better than the kings of the 16th century.

  Matt Ross

  Running, Winter, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

  Tracey Ullman

  Girl, Needs, Timeless

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• These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be bad at all; in fact, you'd get to enjoy it, probably. Then away you'd go, and youth wouldn't be wasted on the young anymore. You'd be 25, with a 95-year-old mind. Granddad would start breaking into liquor stores and staying out late. Hope we have it soon!

  David Lynch

  Years, Growth Hormones, Mind

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• We just lost our electricity. You want to tell me what’s so funny about that?” “It’s not exactly funny. It’s more of a good news/bad news situation.” “In that case, hit me with the good news first.” “They’re both sort of rolled up into one.” “Stop stalling.” “All right. Now don’t get mad, but . . .” Smothered laughter drifted toward him. “Cal . . . I’m naked.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Laughter, Mad, Want

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• I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

  Steve Young

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• We can summarize electricity, magnetism and gravity into equations one inch long, and that's the power of field theory. And so I said to myself: I will create a field theory of strings. And when I did it one day, it was incredible, realizing that on a sheet of paper I can write down an equation which summarized almost all physical knowledge.

  Michio Kaku

  Writing, Long, One Day

  "'Physics Of The Future': How We'll Live In 2100?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www-s1.npr.org. November 29, 2011.

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• For me, the most gratifying part in touring is singing the songs that I know tmy fans love, it's those moments when they put their hands up and their heads down that you know that you have hit a nerve. It's those moments when the people in the audience say "sang". It's those moments that I'd listen to growing up, even on Donny Hathaway live, where the people were speaking to my Dad at the Troubadour and I used to wonder, 'wow, what are they talking about?' There's an electricity that cannot be rivaled when you are creating for people live and in real time.

  Lalah Hathaway

  Song, Growing Up, Dad

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• If there's any sort of superpower we desperately need right now, it's this transcendental force that reminds us of union and connection. I think that superhero stories come from somewhere. We make these aspirational images, to remind us that we have this capacity in ourselves already. I think that electricity can run through disconnected wires. Superheroes, every single one of them, come from the world of imagination and they're played by humans, they're written by humans, and it's in the belief that we invest in these characters that they come to life.

  Ezra Miller

  Running, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism is the acceptance that we cannot go by old models any longer. The old models were based upon a single narrative of development that happened along a singular path. In the 20th century, you have electricity, you have transportation by plane, you have the telephone and all the various media that developed, you have a multiplicity of events and voices and creativities that are happening all around the world-and that multiplicity escalated after the war.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, War, Creativity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone has to do the same work as actors - I teach acting. But there are those people who come on, and there's just something about them in and above themselves that has to do with chemistry and electricity - this aura about them. And that's unmistakable. Do I have that? Yeah, I think I have that.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• It took me a bit to realize how big the changes have been in the last decade. In so many places - electricity from solar and wind is cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels, and now the batteries are coming down in costs very quickly. So it's very exciting news that needed to be told.

  Al Gore

  Realizing, Exciting, Fossil Fuel

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate us and be as profound a boon to our prosperity as electricity. If we are fearful, and fail to press ahead, we could be overwhelmed by automation and inequality.

  Garry Kasparov

  Optimistic, Intelligent, Profound

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". TED Talk, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

  Ethan Hawke

  Magic, Acting, Truck

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

  Jacque Fresco

  Brain

  Source: www.onecommunityranch.org

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• Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the moment at which they were made.

  Rob Pruitt

  Giving, Style, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.

  Lorrie Moore

  Light, Blood, Water

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 18, 2010

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