Brooks Stevens
Industrial designer
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now."
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Moved On
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Billy Wilder
Film Director, Screenwriter
"I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on."
Lewis Black
Comedian, Actor, Author
"I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka."
Yoko Ono
Artist, Musician, Activist
"Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity."
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"Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will."
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"We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people"
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"In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on."
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"The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun."
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"He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis."
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"I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in those days had moved on to another kind of music. I was trying to sell antiques in a modern appliance store."
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"Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope."
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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."
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"Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] knew it was a Billie Holiday tribute. I'm sure they assumed it was going to be like another singer date, where we just have a bunch of charts and they write them down and they got paid and kind of moved on. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not what I intended."
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"I think the world has moved on."
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