Machines Quotes - Page 15

• The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

  Bill Maher

  Generations, Rage, Authority

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.114, Rodale

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• The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Kissing, Gun, Cameras

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• Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• I want to be a machine.

  Andy Warhol

  Want

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.71, MIT Press

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• I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

  Demetri Martin

  Running, Numbers, Atm

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• Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

  Demetri Martin

  Home, Speed, Boxes

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• I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Alive, Refrigerators

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.155, Zondervan

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• ...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

  David Byrne

  Art, Ideas, Useless

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• The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

  James Agee

  Cameras, Records, Faithfulness

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• The internet's a creepy thing, especially if you have kids. It says something very creepy about the fact that I use the same machine to masturbate with as I use to teach my kid the alphabet.

  Greg Giraldo

  Kids, Creepy, Use

  "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2002-2004.

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• I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.

  Christopher Walken

  Home, Years, Voice

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• To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)

  Henry R. Luce

  Photography, Army, Shadow

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• Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Sex, Dad

  "Tourgasm", 2006.

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• You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dedication, Apathy, Levels

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• A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!

  Joey Bishop

  Giving Up, Wife, Car

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• Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great... Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

  Beau Mirchoff

  Land, Different, Would Be

  "Beau Mirchoff Interview: ‘Awkward’ Star Talks Time Machines, High School & Matty’s Love Life". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2011.

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• I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

  Igor Levit

  School, Generations, Texting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

  Igor Levit

  Texting, Answering Machines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Looking through a child's eyes and knowing this was another planet, we decided to design the machines with eyes and bodies like animals, we also decided that this planet has two moons, and we decided that anything else we wanted to do was allowed. It was a new perspective to make the film.

  Alex Abreu

  Children, Eye, Animal

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Political, Body

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.

  John Lewis

  Men, Voice, America

  "Remembering The Centralia Mine Disaster". www.npr.org. March 25, 2014.

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• It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Crush, Military, Iraq

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• An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

  B. C. Forbes

  Ideas, Raw Materials, Accomplish

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• There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Special, Progress, Tools

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• The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Serenity, Tests, Problem

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