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Vaclav Smil Quotes

Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

Vaclav Smil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: czechoslovakian
Birth: December 9, 1943

Topics

Innovation Better Glass Product

I'm deathly afraid of rats.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Afraid Rats Deathly

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

John Berger

Propaganda Elite Long-Term Some

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

Andy Cohen

Today Painting Think Alive Would He

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Mistake Think Language Literature

I've always had this theory that if you're good at something, you should do it.

Michael Bacon

Good You Always Theory Something

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

John Waters

Hate Day Monday Fake Holidays You

Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.

Sia

Brain Thinking Pure Intuition Zone

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

Topher Grace

Me Someone Trying You Boring Never

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

Travis Kalanick

Car Time You Old Years Up

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

Ron Shock

Comedy Never Write Joke Call Just

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Michelle Bachelet

History Me Democracy Political Task

Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

Michael Lee-Chin

Good Business Day Value Gold End