Eileen Gray Quotes
A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.
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We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.
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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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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
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The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
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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 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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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.
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The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.
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The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
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It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."
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A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.
