Bob Kaufman Quotes

I hope that when machines finally take over, they won't build men that break down, as soon as they're paid for.

Bob Kaufman

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• Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Easy
  • Build
  • Shallow

• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Humble
  • Build
  • Nest

• My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.

  

  Dana Perino
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Build

• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Build
  • Personal
  • Computers

• For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • History
  • You
  • Build

• I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Kind
  • Right
  • Build

• Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Expression

• I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Build
  • Lawn
  • Trimmer

• It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Start
  • Build
  • Hopefully

• For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Mind
  • Today

• One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • History
  • Blue
  • Machines

• Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Build

• Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • River
  • Bridge
  • Build

• My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Work
  • Moving
  • Risk

• It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

  

  James Sinegal
  • People
  • Successful
  • Organization

• Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peace
  • I Hope
  • Distant

• Our principal strategy is to build on the borough's strengths, ... We really believe that this will help make Queens an overall better place to live, to work, to visit.

  

  John Young
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Build

• Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Friends
  • True
  • Spiritual

• Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Belief

• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Attitude

• America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.

  

  George Will
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Arizona

• I hope that when machines finally take over, they won't build men that break down, as soon as they're paid for.

  

  Bob Kaufman
  • Build
  • Machines
  • I Hope