Machines Quotes - Page 26

• Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

  Gary Allan

  People, Labels, Looks

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• The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

  Miles Davis

  Pay, Bills, Way

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Perfect, Used, Tempo

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.

  Miles Davis

  Eight, Play, Dollars

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Donald Trump entered show business in his early 50s and becomes a celebrity for 15 years. He decides he wants to officially run for president and doesn't really know the inside politics business, and masters it, beats 15 opponents. Then he wins and defeats the Clinton machine... He's a very fast learner. He will figure out the presidency and governing very quickly.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Running, Winning, Years

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Skills, Numbers

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in every matter but in spiritual matters, to a spiritual teacher is in a sense a lower level of surrendering one's will to God.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Levels

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As Stewart Brand (co-founder of Emeryville's Global Business Network) likes to say, "Information lasts forever. Digital information lasts forever or for five years, whichever comes first." There are examples everywhere. The tapes from the original Viking landers that went to Mars are at (NASA's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but there is no machine that can read the tapes.

  Paul Saffo

  Years, Forever, Mars

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an alter ego of yourself that learns from your social experiences and extends a life even if you're no longer in the game or you are no longer alive.

  Paul Saffo

  Thinking, Games, Ego

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Mind, Maintaining

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

  Kofi Annan

  Organisation, Complexes

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine.

  Kofi Annan

  Agency, Facts, Organisation

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they could not get training posters fast enough out of a central source in Washington, D.C. So they set up their own shop to print training posters: how to dismantle a machine gun, etc.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Army, Gun, Training

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My brief exchange with Guccifer 2 is six weeks after the hacking of the and publication of the DNC documents, which I'm accused of colluding with him on. In other words, I would need a time machine in order to collude.

  Roger Stone

  Order, Needs, Hacking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what I love to do. I'd rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money.

  Tiffany Villarreal

  Heart, People, That One Person

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.

  Noam Chomsky

  World, Destroying, China

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A poem is a small machine made of words.

  William Carlos Williams

  Made

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

  Elaine Equi

  Needs, Function

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."

  Elaine Equi

  Real, Thinking, Use

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, Mean, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, "Can I stay with you?"

  Matt Damon

  Thinking, Reactions, Wells

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Memories, Ideas

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

  J. J. Abrams

  Technology, Ideas, Giving

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

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• Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.

  George Matthew Adams

  Running, People, Worry

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.13, Ravenio Books

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