Equipment Quotes - Page 2

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

Laurie Anderson

Technology, United States, Different

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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Bob Feller

Sports, Baseball, Hair

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You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Judy Holliday

Smart, Play, Dumb

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White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

Rob Zombie

Kids, Thinking, White

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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Douglas Coupland

California, Scary, Culture

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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

H. L. Mencken

Writing, Moon, Thinking

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We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

Andy Partridge

Cost, Gigs, Pounds

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One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

Dennis Hastert

Writing, Requirements, Way

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Television is a triumph of equipment over people.

Fred Allen

Gnats, People, Triumph

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And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

John Abizaid

Thinking, Keys, Reincarnation

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I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

Martin Lewis Perl

Book, Answers, Measurement

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I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Chuck Yeager

Airplane, Flying, Dying

Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

Ken Burns

Player, Thinking, Technique

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In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

Wietse Venema

Safety, Kind, Physics

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We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

DeForest Soaries

Voting, Standards, Type

"The Voice of Voting Reform". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2006.

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Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

Ridley Scott

Home, Technology, People

"Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". FemaleFirst Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

J. G. Ballard

Art, Generations, Safari

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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Wally Schirra

Soccer, Football, American Football

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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

David R. Brower

People, Perfect, Problem

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The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

Leo Ornstein

Differences, Manipulation, Students

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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound

Pat Metheny

Sound, Littles, Way

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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources

Barbara Mikulski

Firefighter, Training, Needs

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Don't get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment

Bill Hybels

People, Vision, Feels

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I can do no more than characterise, and recommend, the Alexander treatment as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilition, or rather of re-deployment, of the entire muscular equipment, and through that of many other organs. Compared with this, many types of physiotherapy which are now in general use look surprisingly crude and restricted in their effect - and sometimes even harmful to the rest of the body.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Deployment, Use, Body

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I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

Oliver P. Smith

Military, Marine, Army

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