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My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics. -- Kerri Strug
I am geared towards communicating on a female level. -- Guy Pearce
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. -- Maurice Strong
Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out. -- Mark Ruffalo
When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids. -- Prince
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance. -- Nikola Tesla
There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better. -- R. Lee Ermey
I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great. -- Joe Dante
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12. -- Bill Nye
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.' -- Rob Lowe
For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E. -- Matthew McConaughey
By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children. -- Mark Foley
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups. -- Elon Musk
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up. -- Pia Zadora
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. -- Gregory Bateson
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. -- Marianne Williamson
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out. -- Jeff Tweedy
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society. -- Laurene Powell Jobs
I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child. -- Channing Tatum
The news that comes out of Pakistan is always geared toward terrorism and fundamentalism. But when you give people freedom of expression and the freedom to go out and be social and to express themselves, you will see a change. I see that coming about in my country. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool. -- Bernie Mac
When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through. -- Michael Palin
Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy. -- Sam Shepard
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. -- Philip Levine
Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance. -- Carolina Kluft
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods. -- Benjamin Graham
I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards. -- Austin Peck
I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that. -- Tracy Morgan
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe. -- Nikola Tesla
There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility. -- Quentin S. Crisp
The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution. -- Monica Crowley
The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to. -- Michael Bolton
The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to -- Michael Bolton
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie. -- Kate Beckinsale
Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. -- Luc Montagnier
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. -- Tyler Cowen
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. -- Alison Bechdel
The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways. -- David Hockney
Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters. -- Vince Gill
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? -- Winston Churchill
We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it. -- Northrop Frye
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. -- Rita Dove
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." -- Lewis Mumford
The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates. -- Blake Bailey
I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking. -- Vonda Shepard
It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience. -- Stephen Sondheim
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. -- Erich Fromm
much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140) -- Sebastian Junger
I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera. -- Megan Hilty
It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us. -- Cheryl Lynn
They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know. -- Sandra Bernhard
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle. -- Cesar Chavez
Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines. -- James Hetfield
There are powdered salts, chunked salts, salts shaped in different ways with various additives to work perfectly with processed foods. All of them are geared to increase allure. -- Michael Moss
With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes. -- Tom Stoppard
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life. -- Sufjan Stevens
Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work. -- Felix Rohatyn
My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking. -- Bethenny Frankel
I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector. -- Dick Cheney
I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it. -- Archie Panjabi
My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold. -- Cammi Granato
Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that. -- Nancy Johnson
Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people that you're following on Facebook and Twitter. -- Mike McCue
One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone. -- Jason Mraz
My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it. -- Jim Sullivan
I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid. -- Torrey DeVitto
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions. -- Noam Chomsky
I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like 'Vampire Diaries' and 'Pretty Little Liars,' which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid. -- Torrey DeVitto

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