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I like transformative TV.


Tempestt Bledsoe
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.
Michael Rapaport
Tags: Me Had First
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
John Burroughs
Tags: Up Come Cannot
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The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.


Joseph Lancaster
Tags: Men Will Same
The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.
Jeff Greene
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
Iqbal Quadir
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
Tags: Man His Same
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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.


William Hurt
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Alan Turing
I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
Harold Ford, Jr.
Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
S. Jay Olshansky
Tags: Power Like Could
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.


David Lee Roth
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The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.


Erno Rubik
Tags: Life Even Itself
I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
Ralph Hall
Tags: Work Age Am
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
Ha-Joon Chang
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot
Tags: Never Look Same
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.
Lowell McAdam
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
Adrienne Rich
Tags: Our Every Still
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
Otto Weininger