Malfunction Quotes - Page 2

• What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Once it was a shaming thing to say, and crushing to have it said about you, by a man. It implied oddness, deformity, sexual malfunction. I go to the living room doorway. “I’m not mad because I’m a woman,” I say. “I’m mad because you’re an asshole.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, School, Men

  Margaret Atwood (1989). "Ojo de gato", Bantam

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• If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.

  Thomas Sowell

  Writing, Simple, Decision

  "Knowledge and Decisions". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1980.

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• I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph is to make an anti-photograph.

  William Klein

  Opposites, Machines, Done

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• I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

  Billy Connolly

  Body, Crosses, Absurdity

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• Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best of all possible worlds, while governments create and exacerbate malfunctions; the other imagined that governments were somehow capable of both perceiving and correcting malfunctions by means of the printing press, provided the right technocrats are in charge.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Heart, Mean, Government

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• There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

  Paul McCartney

  Promise, Wardrobe, Exposing

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• Service disruptions have to be avoided or at least resolved as quickly as possible. When the Internet goes down, consumers don't notice the difference between a technical malfunction, an act of sabotage by hackers or a military attack.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Military, Differences, Internet

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach,, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Trying, Comfort

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

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• Me encantan las faldas sueltas con cintura ceñida. Una silueta femenina es una zona sin estrés: es cómoda y no tengo que preocuparme por los fallos de vestuario.

  Eva Mendes

  Estrés, preocupación, siluetas

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.

  Ridley Pearson

  Dog, Koalas, Pirate

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