Hybrid Quotes

• I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

  Jason Mraz

  Records, Boards, Kind

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• I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

  Barack Obama

  Change, People, Care

  "House Democrats, Obama Retreat To Williamsburg". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 6, 2009.

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• Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Editors, Directors, Hybridity

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• Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Men, Ghost

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• I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Real, Imagination, World

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

  Aberjhani

  Self Esteem, Age, World

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

  Paul Valery

  Reality, Dancer, Hybridity

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• Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

  Lewis Thomas

  Opportunity, Two, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

  Amanda Seyfried

  Green, Shirts, Should

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• Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

  Gilbert Adair

  Past, Principles, Batteries

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• In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single gamete the Anlagen for a pair of characters. Each combination occurs with approximately the same frequency.

  Carl Correns

  Character, Pairs, Individual

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• My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Simple, Average

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• New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Technology, Car, Giving

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• Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Government, People, Crowds

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• All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Real, Capitalism, Strain

  Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• What is this, a Hybrid? You guys must be proud of yourselves.

  Triple H

  Wwe, Guy, Proud

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• There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

  Grace Slick

  Attitude, People, Credit

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• By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.

  Albert J. Nock

  Principles, Mouths, Way

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 305), 1943.

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• I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

  Chris Colfer

  Cute, Nice, Car

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Discovery, Sound

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• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Believe, Sadness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.

  Bill Gates

  Caring, Self, Circles

  Remarks by Bill Gates at World Economic Forum 2008 "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century" in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

  Michael Symon

  Thinking, Car, Able

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• The three auto companies in the United States, they're all scrambling to come up with a plan, some way to reinvent themselves. Well this week Ford did its part. Ford unveiled a new hybrid, the Ford Fusion, which will get almost 40 miles to the gallon. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, and when asked how much it would cost, a spokesman for Ford said, '$25 billion.' They just want that money; they don't care. That's without mud flaps.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fusion, United States, Three

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• hybrid, n. A pooled issue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Issues, Collaboration

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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