Factories Quotes - Page 8

• My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

  Mike Myers

  Mom, Dad, Office

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• I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Europe, Long

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

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• I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

  George McGovern

  Europe, Oil, Tanks

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• I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

  David Lynch

  Cities, Towns, Industry

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• I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Plato, Intellectual, Sausage

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

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• You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Puppets, Want

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• Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

  Johann Lamont

  School, Race, Rats

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• China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Europe, Cost, Investing

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• D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a ‘dirty little secret’, a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production

  Gilles Deleuze

  Dirty, Secret, Desire

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• What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when it's rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Beach, Coffee, Fall

  "Dry: A Memoir". Book by Augusten Burroughs, June, 2003.

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• The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

  Gayle Forman

  Dust, Ovation, Bows

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.132, Penguin

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• For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever.

  Richard Kadrey

  Doors, Fire, Puff

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• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Art, Fall, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

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• Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the left even before her body turned, and look for his face. The evening minute as she hurried down the street, her happiness curling her mouth upward to the white sky, the red wings speeding her to him, to look up at him and smile.

  Paullina Simons

  White, Doors, Sky

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• The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Agriculture, People, Ruling

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• We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, America, Rights

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• Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, Cities, Population

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.233, Pan Macmillan

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• Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Hate, Eye

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

  John Grisham

  Hate, Want, Prison

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• Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there’s a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she…Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Letting Go, Sunshine, Dark

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• That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

  Cassandra Clare

  Truck, Booksellers

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.737, Simon and Schuster

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• You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall. "Love you, too, jackass!

  Rachel Caine

  Love You, Over You, Looks

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.44, Allison & Busby

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• However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Voiceless, Tests, Matter

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• Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

  Seth Godin

  Stupid, Thinking, Balloons

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.91, Penguin

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