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It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. -- Gil Kane
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. -- Arthur Erickson
I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks. -- Michael Moore
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. -- Leo Burnett
Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things. -- James Darren
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television. -- Gale Gordon
In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don't have to struggle that much. -- Vir Das
My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. -- Michael Moore
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring. -- Ashley Montagu
The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line. -- Rollo May
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand. -- Ilka Chase
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. -- Max Lucado
If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say? -- Ted Nugent
Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off. -- Douglas Rushkoff
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. -- Alvin Toffler
One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence. -- Lisi Harrison
The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual. -- Michael Jackson
I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me? -- Carson McCullers
And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny. -- George McGovern
Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001. -- Mike Rogers
I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money. -- Kevin Nash
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance. -- Andy Grove
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy. -- George Packer
My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line. -- Hilda Solis
Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate. -- Michael De Luca
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more. -- Mayer Hawthorne
One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn. -- Drew Houston
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid. -- Jill Lepore
Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders. -- Bruce Coville
One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun. -- Sabrina Bryan
As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. -- Sarah Lacy
I put the hamburger on the assembly line. -- Ray Kroc
The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line. -- Ray Davies
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. -- Rollo May
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least itâ??s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me. -- Ted Nugent
Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . . -- Helen Lawrenson
Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people. -- Studs Terkel
There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference. -- Seth Godin
My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line. -- Joe Biden
College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. -- Bill Gaede

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