Machines Quotes - Page 27

• We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

  Fred Allen

  Historical, Competition, Comedian

  Fred Allen (2016). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.179, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

  Charles Babbage

  Animal, Simple, Hands

  Charles Babbage (1827). “An Essay on General Principles which regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures”, p.4

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• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

  J. G. Ballard

  Order, Optimism, Political

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

  Eric Bana

  Use, Weight, Gym

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• Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

  Antonio Banderas

  Strong, Hollywood, Female

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• Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.

  Lewis Black

  Blood, Asking, Rotting

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• I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

  Sara Blakely

  Dresses, Might, Toes

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• Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

  Ray Bradbury

  Humans, Human Beings

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• Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Purpose, Normal

  "Hitler's gold". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

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• I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

  Sandra Bullock

  Age, Want, Type

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anna Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Government, Target

  The Economist interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.

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• And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

  Duane G. Carey

  Powerful, Air, Flying

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• As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

  Barry Commoner

  Teacher, Doctors, Views

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

  Cindy Crawford

  Basketball, Strong, Horse

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

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• I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

  Claire Danes

  Gun, Fire, Know How

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• Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty.

  Evan Davis

  Running, Character, Tunnels

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• The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world.

  Evan Davis

  Car, Chinese, Tools

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

  Richard Dawkins

  Too Much, Emphasis, Genes

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• I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

  Mos Def

  Running, Writing, Ambition

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Perfect, Design, Sound

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• Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  Denis Diderot

  Happiness, Men, Quality

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

  Beth Ditto

  Mom, House, Behinds

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.

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• Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

  Fred Durst

  Sound, Phrases, Rage

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• Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Office, Racing

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• When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

  James Dyson

  House, Electric, Behinds

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