Vaclav Smil Quotes

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.

Vaclav Smil

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SocietyEndYouClassManufacturing

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

Jillian Bell

PeopleLaughComedyAlwaysKnew

In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators.

John Battelle

TechnologyPastComputersDataHuman

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

John Mayer

MusiciansTryingI CanEverything

I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God.

Matt Smith

LoveGodAgeMeSongDoing

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

Maura Tierney

ControlWorrySillyYouEverything

I was in the final running for the Zac Efron role in 'High School Musical.'

Matt Lanter

SchoolHigh SchoolHighFinalRole

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

SelfNowIslandMoreComplexFabric

In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

Trent Reznor

NailsGuyUsedShotsInchBeen

I've said all along: I'll support the nominee, because we can't afford another term of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy or, for that matter, economic policy at home.

Tom Cotton

HomeSupportSaidMatterPolicy

Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.

Rosecrans Baldwin

CoffeeSoulWallBloodSayStreet

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.

Judith Viorst

MeWindowWritingPerfectUnderstand

I was a high school wrestler. I was city champion.

Bret Hart

SchoolCityChampionHigh School

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