Austin Kleon Quotes
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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If you don't find a new website when you Stumble, we've failed.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.
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Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.
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We were doing something called telemedicine, where we were using the ultrasound. One interesting application of this ultrasound is the possibility that you could possibly use it to measure critical bone areas during a long space mission and track if you're losing bone in these areas. On Earth, when they check you for bone loss, you get in this big machine. It's the size of a room and it's got a platform with an x-ray that scans your whole body and in critical areas and it takes a while and it just wouldn't be practical to have a machine like that in space.
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I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very topical issues right now. The idea is to try to get people to become obviously more knowledgeable about the issue and try to get corporations and individuals to contribute to these nonprofit organizations.
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I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
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There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.
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There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.
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Without a doubt, God led me to your message because I had never been to your Web site before. Please forgive me for letting the highlights of your message speak through me to our ladies, without getting your permission. You were a blessing to them and to me.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.
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For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website?
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I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.
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This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?
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Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
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Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.
