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“Where I live, if I put solar panels on my roof I'm not allowed to sell that energy back to the grid. I can't change that restriction myself. I need our local decision-makers to fix that.”

Ifs Needs I Can Energy Decision Sells Locals Makers Roof Restriction Can't Change Grids Decision Makers Solar Panels

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.”

Structure Chaos Satisfaction Combination Grids

Author:Michelle Stuart

“The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.”

People Way States Problem Age Past United Worry United States Sitting Damage Australia Infrastructure Explosives Laptops Chile Grids Vests Somalia Perth

Author:Ted Koppel

“I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.”

Way Wanted Painting Direct Video Formation Grids

Author:Mickalene Thomas

“I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.”

Thinking Hate Reputation Designer Love Hate Grids Love Hate Relationship

Author:Khoi Vinh

“Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.”

Firsts Bigs Saws Influence Fine Grids

Author:Robert Barry

“I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.”

Thinking I Can Desire Guy Saved Relate Sense Of Humor This Guy Psycho Grids

Author:Rhys Darby

“The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage - batteries - is a bottleneck. That makes it very difficult to put large amounts of renewable energy on the grid.”

Facts Energy Difficult Gone Wind Amount Percent Astonishing Batteries Renewable Energy Storage Grids Bottlenecks

Author:Christiana Figueres

“Each building should produce as least as much energy as it's going to need, and have more to put on the grid. They should be using all of the natural light and natural heat.”

Needs Should Light Energy Natural Produce Building Heat Grids Natural Light

Author:Christiana Figueres

“I think it's really useful to create parameters. The term you use can be forwarded into something more like a grid, a rubric, a system that you apply to all environments, and in so doing you create a situation in which you can locate local color, local differences within new environments.”

Thinking Use Term Differences Situation Environment Color Locals Doing You Parameters Grids New Environment Rubrics

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“It felt really radically uncomfortable. And I was really not sure at first about releasing that body of work. But then the more I thought about it, the more I thought that that position, that location, is something that's just sort of interesting in its own right, as an experience, as a process. Again, we're talking about this rubric, this set of rules, this grid that I toss on top of different locations globally. This is what came out of Africa.”

Firsts Different Body Felt Process Interesting Talking Position Uncomfortable Not Sure Location Toss Grids Rubrics

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.”

Jobs Economic Modern Activity Electric Grids

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Take the self-driving car and the smartphone and put those together and think about how to manage a smart grid because suddenly you have all of this data coming from those two mechanisms that allow for a much higher level of allocating energy much more efficiently.”

Thinking Two Self Together Energy Levels Car Higher Smart Driving Manage Data Mechanism Higher Level Grids Smartphones Driving Cars

Author:Jonathon Keats

“There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.”

Should Whole Jobs Energy Building Industry Right Now Creating Smart Fewer Efficiency Grids Energy Efficiency

Author:Van Jones

“The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that the elite economic interests that are holding them down are also feeding them a bunch of lies.”

Government Lying Interest Economic Industry Built Folks Favors Bunch Elites Feeding Grids

Author:Van Jones

“Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."”

Kind Stories Running Enemy Fantasy Type Conservative Woods Fantastic Division Captains Utopian Grids

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“In America, we trade more energy with our neighbors than we trade with the rest of the world combined. And I do want us to have an electric grid, an energy system that crosses borders. I think that would be a great benefit to us.”

Thinking World Want Would Be America Energy Benefits Crosses Trade Neighbor Borders Electric Want U Grids

Author:Hillary Clinton

“No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.”

Ifs Needs Trying Particular Personality Unique Billions Psychological Grids

Author:Max Lucado

“I support anything that we can do, including investigations or otherwise, to protect Americans from foreign interference in all of our good work that we need to do in the United States, whether it be our elections, whether it be our businesses, whether it be our electric grids.”

Needs States Can Do United United States Support Protect Election Including Electric Investigation Good Work Interference Grids

Author:Reince Priebus

“Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.”

Mean Dies Perspective Constant Routine Farming And Off Grids

Author:Amy Pietz

“I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.”

People Mind Happens Able Faces Turns Speak Behinds Opinion Wall Months Internet Responsible Reactions Being Responsible Anonymity Turn Off Cyber Grids Speak Your Mind

Author:John Larroquette

“I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I did both in different forms of isolation - too young by conventional standards, too far off-grid culturally and geographically. So my experience is probably too specific to be useful. None of us do this stuff the same way. We just try to endure and press on, I guess.”

Way Feels Trying Stills Different Form Young Stuff Parent Standards Presses Endure Isolation Conventional Adolescence Gigs Grids

Author:Tim Winton

“China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.”

“I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.”

Mind Believe Humans Problem Fantasy Effects Produce Evolution Machines Arguing Human Mind Rays Electric Maintaining Singularity Grids Human Evolution Synthetic

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts Car Driving Grids

Author:Eric Bana

“Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.”

Way Feelings Difficult Balance Extremes Rhythm Swings Strict Elegant Maintaining Equilibrium Guidelines Grids Coordination Executing Panache

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.”

Color Roots And Love Photograph Driving Titles California Sunday Los Angeles Truck Santa January Barbara Grids Santa Barbara

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.”

Mexico Grids Wintertime

Author:Jesse Ventura

“When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.”

Ifs World Humans Doe Light Speak Human Beings Space Quality Conditions Empathy Time And Space Dots Bundles Grids Firmament Seamless

Author:Martin Buber

“Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.”

Thinking Should Facts Able Left Space Walks Metaphor Controlled You Choose Manhattan Grids Open Spaces

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her hips to the beat of the distant music. 'And patience.' He spun her around slowly and back toward him. 'And it's only fun if you trust your partner.' The dip was so slow, so smooth that Kat didn't know it was happening until the world was already turned upside down and Hale's face was inches from her own. Count me in, Kat.' He squeezed her tighter. 'You should always count me in.”

Ifs Knows World Should Faces Fun Can Do Beats Happenings Down And Moved Dancing Partners Rhythm Hips Inches Smooth You Can Do It Upside Down Dip Spun Grids Lasers Hale

Author:Ally Carter

“Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.”

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger: Number 3 in series

“Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.”

Source: Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati

“We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.”

States Reality Light Standards Currents Vulnerable Granted Flip Transmission Grids Reliability Blackouts

Author:Richard Burr

“Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.”

Running Water Levels Imagine Football Wall Drug Paper Bird Standing Legs Farms Multiple Cages Ceilings Grids Heating Printer Rectangles Ventilation

Book:Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.”

Kind Doe Stills Country Enough House Energy Left Generations Cost Paid Brands Alternatives Plus Prime Highways Mortgage Had Enough Brand New Grids Bailouts Paid Off Alternative Energy

Author:Matt Taibbi

“‎People have presuppositions... By 'presuppositions' we mean the basic way that an individual looks at life- his worldview. The grid through which he sees the world. Presuppositions rest upon that which a person considers to be the truth of what exists. A person's presuppositions provide the basis for their values- and therefore the basis for their decisions.”

People World Way Looks Mean Persons Values Individual Decision Bases Worldview Grids

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.”

World Heart Language Cities Streets Despair Prison Chaos Confusion Dust Grids Blitz Chaos And Confusion

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.”

People Years America Cities Four Thousand Years Ago Rivers Ancestor Thousand Years Barbarians Illiterate Grids Sewers

Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.”

Firsts Kind Our Lives Kings Succeed Clock Seconds Aggressive Pulse Grids

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.”

Thinking Knows Reality Worry Concern Terrorism Nuclear Facility Electrical Cyber Grids

Author:Peter Facinelli

“For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.”

“Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing”

Self Arms Suicide Wounds Loathing Intricate Self Loathing Self Harm Grids Self Inflicted Self Inflicted Wounds

Author:Jay McInerney

“I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.”

World Believe States Opportunity United Technology United States Smart Europe Unions Extraordinary Developing Efficient Vehicle European Union Electrical Grids Implementing

Author:Hillary Clinton

“All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.”

Done Painting Fingerprints Grids

Author:Chuck Close

“A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.”

Consciousness Exposed Underwear Grids

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it...Families will have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly.”

Thinking Want Needs Different Used Energy Environment Wind Climate Change Available Grids

Author:Steve Holliday

“t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.”

“I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one day just for 15 minutes and it was terrible. You know why? I felt like I was back in LA again. Four or five years ago, when I had a car and I had been out of the city I wouldn't feel I was back until I got in the car, you know. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.”

Knows Giving Feels Years Has Beens Facts Culture House Left Felt Process Walks Cities Five Four Minutes Car Goes On Terrible One Day Years Ago Selling Five Years Bus Grids

Author:Vincent Kartheiser

“The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropiate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.”

Looks Art Use Numbers Practice Style Solutions Aids Designer Guarantees Permit Grids Personal Style

Author:Josef Muller-Brockmann

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