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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Much like rock 'n' roll, school shootings were invented by the black man and stolen by the whites,

Mr. Bush is in the hands of a fortune that will be unremitting on the point of Iraq. If he'd invented the Bill of Rights, it wouldn't get him out of his jam.

So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for ""bliss."" It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

He left no trace apart from the local papers and Doyle's own account of the case. He really had to be invented from the ground up.

I am suspicious of teachers who claim to have invented the only successful method of bringing out the best in young performers, of theorists who claim to have invented a unique approach to analysis, or of historians who wish to reduce all the developments of the musical style of the past entirely to the determinism of social conditions.

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

I hardly knew the man's name, ... He really invented me. He needed me for his political purposes, so I'm a figment of his imagination.

I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented the light bulb.

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.

Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate could vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.

HADDS was invented for clothing designers by clothing designers to help make sketches as realistic as possible. Designers are reporting that our results are so lifelike that you can almost wear them. And our system is so user-friendly, that even laymen who have never sewn a stitch can create their own couture collection.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

He was hugely talented and had a regard for the written word. He had a writer's judgement about what did and didn't work. He was not invented by television. He was the finished article when he appeared on television.

He didn't just think out of the box. He invented the box and then thought out of the box he had just invented.

I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it's full of all these made-up words.

Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

His mom invented whiteout. He's a millionaire. I thought having whiteout be the last thing in the museum was a good way to end the tour.

He invented the jet engine, of course. He is one of the most famous Coventry kids, I think.

Long Island is where we invented the modern suburb, and whether Long Island will remake itself for the 21st century, that's the challenge.

Picasso's lifetime ... reflects a wide diversity of style development and also technical innovation, ... He invented things that we take for granted today (like) the invention of collage, assemblage, cubism -- as a style, his surrealist period which is so rich.

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy

It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore.

I think Bluetooth is late. They tried to commoditize the technology before it was even invented and now it's too late.

I think IBM invented proprietary back in the 80s, but that's not what customers want. They want to have flexibility in choosing a variety of different technologies that they want to deploy.

I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work.

We are delighted to offer pint-sized inventors a unique opportunity to dream up their own frozen pop creations. The frozen pop was actually invented in 1905 by an 11 year old boy so we are looking forward to seeing what kids come up with in 2006.

Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody knows you're a dog through the U.S. mail, either. Fans could be utterly different in their fanzine persona, which may be why both fandom and the Net were invented by individualistic Americans.

We invented a golf cart that puts less pressure on the ground than a human being walking. We found a way to equally distribute the weight, between 5 and 6 pounds per square inch, so the cart can go literally anywhere on the greens.

We invented Texas Hold 'em and we can't even play it here. But every state around us sure can.

We invented the concept of easy access to digital news and we are still the leader in the field.

Whoever invented work must not have had anything to do

We are the only major capital city in the world that doesn't have a jazz festival. It's a shame to me. This is the nation's capital. Jazz was invented in this country.

There are some things that are more difficult and commercially successful. Writing original songs is more gratifying on some level. But this is so much damn fun because we invented it and perfected it. The fact that we let the music speak and then poof! -- it's gone -- manages to somehow give us artistic integrity in a cover-band framework. We've got something magical here, and we have to protect it. We don't want to suck any of the joy out of it.

We are not claiming to have invented voice over packet technology, but we do have patents that have facilitated the use of this technology, and we will take appropriate action to protect the use of these patents.

The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.

We're not mathematically out of it, but the math we need, they haven't invented it yet.

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise, can you imagine what awful screeching?

Usually it's two guys holding the victim, but this was even better. I think this trick was invented when Abner Doubleday started this game, and every year there's somebody who hasn't seen it. We had to go all the way to Japan to find someone this time.

Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in 'The Outlaw'. And he never knew. He wasn't going to take my clothes off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did.

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.

Croatia is a small country up against a giant country that invented soccer and is one of the best in the game, only we believe in our strengths and our chances of winning.

Bigger Than Hitler is because I made so many more sitcoms than Hitler ever made. It's just vast. Videos of me have been watched in countries that weren't invented when he was around. It's just a fact of who I am.

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

They always said 'Our Dreams Will Never Die.' You know, that is really a fantasy. It's not invented by him. That is Diana Ross.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

The story of Beck's is quite unusual. Normally you start your factory around selling your beer and your brand. Beck's was invented only for exporting,

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

We've invented a way to grow the film using a slow-growth method.

These are all people who are thinking way outside the box. Leonardo invented the box, and these people are really pushing the edges of it in everything they do.

The words in the English language have not been invented yet. Those two have the biggest backs, because there were games they just carried us.

Victor invented me, in a way. He gave me a desk and a sponsor and a place to hang my hat, which was what I needed.

Users provide the real quality of this meeting. They tell it like it is. They share ideas and share software, too. SHARE and its SHARE library invented the open source concept.

We think that basketball is the international language. It's a sport that was invented in America, but it travels the world. It's been an Olympic sport since 1936, and we have worked with many of the countries here.

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment

Various monitoring devices have been invented to monitor a baby's heart rate or breathing, but they don't reduce the risk, ... They just keep the parents awake.

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

Something is being invented at Microsoft right now that competes with everything you guys are thinking of right now. You have to be able to work with that.

As long as they invented football, I'd be OK.

That's why the good Lord invented the Internet,

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.

Ronnie and Samuel were very intelligent. One spotted the space and the other reacted very well to the pass. Between them they invented a goal.

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

Ever since man invented the wheel, he has been the confused victim of the miracles he has wrought.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Even Candy Land (a child's game invented in 1949) has a special anniversary edition. Old-fashioned board games are enjoying a real renaissance.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb because he thought sleep was a waste of time. But he was a 10-hour sleeper -- six hours a night and two, two-hour naps during the day.

This game was invented to have fun. If you can't enjoy playing basketball, you've missed a lot.

This is a trial only based on invented evidence, ... There is nothing, I repeat, nothing. There is no proof, no documentation, and there is no motive.

I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.

I may have invented it. But Bill made it famous.

I'm the only guy who actually invented anything of the judges. They got a couple of advertising hacks and a venture capitalist.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!

I'm pretty sure Larry invented the game. I'm pretty sure about that.

In my opinion, much of the so-called science of "education" was invented as a necessary mechanism for enabling semi-educated people to act as tolerable teachers.

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.

If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.

Social networks, search engines and things yet invented are critical as we bring millions of movies, books and musical recordings online.

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.

The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.

Nobel invented dynamite. I won't accept his blood money.

The beauty of it all is that we've invented nothing new. We're just taking games that have been around for decades and putting them in people's homes.

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

I want to see the artificial intelligence lab, too, but just seeing anything of the things that have been invented there would be great.

David Bowie is playing Nikola Tesla, who invented alternating current and I am playing Igor to his Frankenstein.