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The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates. ”
I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it. ”
We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right. ”
I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just feels better. You just feel like a leaner machine. You're not worrying about digesting things. ”
The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology. ”
I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional. ”
My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got to shoot every single machine gun and hand gun there was. ”
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships. ”
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine. ”
The economy is like a machine. ”