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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.


Marilyn Monroe

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STEPHEN HAWKING My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very compli...
AUBREY DE GREY The 'pearl in the oyster' is being able to run an application in a machine, but not alter the machin...
DAVID GRESCHLER You asked the impossible of a machine and the machine complied.
KURT VONNEGUT I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
HARRY BRIDGES Artificial Intelligence is not a Man versus Machine saga; it’s in fact, Man with Machine synergy.
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HARRY BRIDGES You can't run a steel company like a cash machine.
WAYNE FRASER God does not have money making machine in heaven
SUNDAY ADELAJA Most teenagers have a healthy appetite, but Kyle is an eating machine.
GREG PUCKETT I'm not a scoring machine.
JAROMIR JAGR The factory is the machine that builds the machine.
ELON MUSK You can't really use it to hop from machine to machine.
ELIAS LEVY Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have beliefs? Could a m...
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CHARLES PETZOLD Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next...
RICHIE NORTON Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off sw...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON By nature you are a manifesting machine!
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PHILIP T. M. Kallis is a methodical run machine.
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E.M. FORSTER I'm like a one-woman protest machine.
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EDEN PHILLPOTTS You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.
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HAROLD RYAN Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficien...
FRANçOISE MELTZER It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
CRAIG BRUCE A house is a machine for living in.
LE CORBUSIER Normal is a setting on a washing machine.
CHRISTOPHER BARZAK Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
SIMONE WEIL Men have become tools of their tools.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a...
ADLAI E STEVENSON The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
OSCAR WILDE To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
LEWIS MUMFORD He's a machine right now.
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STEVEN WRIGHT Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.
ROBERT C. GALLAGHER Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
ROBERT C. GALLAGHER All I would need is a time machine.
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GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS craps table and a slot machine.
CELINE DION I want to be a machine.
ANDY WARHOL To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
VALERIE SOLANIS I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
TAYLOR HAWKINS The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
JEFF BEZOS The human body is like a machine,without adequate maintainance it can easily breakdown.
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AVE BAUDER Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and...
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JAMES JEANS Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine
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MARILYN MONROE All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
MARILYN MONROE What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
MARILYN MONROE