Invented Quotes
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The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.
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There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!
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Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
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I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
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The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams.
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You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.
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God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
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Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.
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I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.
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Friends and I used to play an invented parlor game called the Worst Records Never Made. The point was to hypothesize the most stunningly inappropriate albums we could imagine—pairings of artists and material so horrific that even the famously dunderheaded major labels would hardly consider making them. Most of our inspirations have been lost to memory, but the notion of discs like “Yodel with the Berlin Philharmonic,” “The Three Tenors Sing Gilbert and Sullivan,” and—my favorite—“The Chipmunks Present Your Favorite Spirituals” can still inspire what P. G. Wodehouse used to call “the raised eyebrow.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
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I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.
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“I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.”
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The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.
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I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all.
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[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.
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Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
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It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.
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I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
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Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.
