Equipment Quotes - Page 15

• I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

  Peter Biskind

  Years, Lucky, Politician

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.178, Macmillan

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• Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

  Alan Parsons

  Engineering, Use, Audio

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• We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Agonizing, Endowment

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• You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

  Ken Rockwell

  Creating, Worry, Needs

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• Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.

  Ken Rockwell

  Creating, Worry, Effort

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• The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

  Confucius

  Military, Government, People

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some who were responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending money to enhance the value of their service.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Money, Cutting, Order

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• If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence, the productivity and the wages of labor are less than they otherwise would be.

  Sumner Slichter

  Money, Years, Would Be

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• From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

  Bode Miller

  Racing, Gone, Skis

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• Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  War, Marine, Order

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• Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

  Louis L'Amour

  Opportunity, Chance, Advantage

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• Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

  Lance Armstrong

  Years, People, Design

  "Lance Armstrong In 2012: On Exercise, Diet And Why He Won't Go Into Politics". Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.

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• I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

  Jason Reitman

  Mistake, Thinking, Digital

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• I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into Turn 1, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

  Danica Patrick

  Thinking, Car, Lap

  Danica Patrick talks about the Indy 500, www.newsday.com.

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• I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

  Susan Orlean

  Mother, Party, Home

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

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• The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Cooking, Mind, Digital

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• One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

  Bode Miller

  Kids, Used, Brands

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• I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

  Ang Lee

  People, Giving, Chance

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

  Denis Leary

  Firefighter, Needs, Care

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• The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell.

  Jon Landau

  Beach, Artist, Boys

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• I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Agreement

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• It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

  Herbie Hancock

  Ideas, Trying, Juice

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• For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day', I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.

  Kirk Hammett

  Hero, Albums, Tone

  "Prime Cuts: Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett Critique Key Songs in the Band's Harsh, Noble History". The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. August 4, 2014.

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• Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

  Temple Grandin

  Running, Reality, College

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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