Quotes with tool-using

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  • Dave Barry And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Noam Chomsky As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bell Hooks As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
    Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004)
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Richard Dawkins Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m passing the torch. I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Beth Orton Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bill Griffith But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Kelvin Throop III Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
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  • Bruce Schneier Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
    Source: Biancuzzi, Federico (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg CHICAGO: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know — I've been using it for years.
    Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Bobby Flay Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Stephen Nachmanovitch Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Andy Rooney Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Bill Rancic Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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