Factories Quotes

• The house is a factory.

  Dave Eggers

  House

  "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Book by Dave Eggers, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

  Lynda Resnick

  Marketing, Entrepreneurial, Staff

  "Building Your Business From the Ground Up or Licensing Your Idea: Which Is Right for You?" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.

  Joseph Stalin

  Hands, Order, Land

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• See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Dog, Business, Future

  "At Lunch, Donald Trump Gives Critics Hope" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. November 22, 2016.

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

  Thomas Carper

  Enzymes, Workplace, Plant

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• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

  W. H. Auden

  Hell, Assembly, Walks

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• I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Team, Boss, Cinema

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• Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Hope, Art

  "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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• I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

  James Cromwell

  Attitude, Animal, Suffering

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• If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Oil, Ducks

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• I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Temples, Blame

  "The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression". Book by Robert E. Gilbert, p. 78, 2003.

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• The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Commodity, Refrigerators

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• Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Years, Land

  Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

  Bob Saget

  Dirty, People, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

  Cary Grant

  Color, Titles, Ships

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• A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

  Robert Trout

  Successful, Science, Technology

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• When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

  Billy Joel

  Jobs, Musician, Clubs

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• Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

  Fritz Todt

  Workplace, Socialist, Comrade

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 209, May, 1938.

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• If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Self, Effort, World

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• I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Work, Humor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

  Gianni Agnelli

  Workplace, Construction, Construction Work

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• We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Civilization, Cities

  Norman Mailer (1966). “Cannibals and Christians”, Dell, 1967

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