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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. -- Paul Valery
Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.' -- Amanda Seyfried
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. -- Elon Musk
I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver. -- Barack Obama
One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing. -- Kathleen Wynne
What is this, a Hybrid? You guys must be proud of yourselves. -- Triple H
I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel. -- Alexandra Paul
I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof. -- Kola Boof
Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars. -- Ryan Tedder
These new 'hybrid' F1 cars represent an extremely complex project. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both. -- Spike Lee
I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music. -- Jason Mraz
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. -- Donna J. Haraway
I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. -- Al Gore
New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed. -- J. D. Hayworth
No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show. -- Mo Rocca
...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin. -- Gregory Maguire
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. -- Barbara Hepworth
The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on. -- Brad Delson
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director. -- Arne Glimcher
I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life. -- Ashraf Barhom
Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate. -- Kevin Mitnick
Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted. -- Sophie Swetchine
Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids. -- Takeshi Uchiyamada
We are going in the direction of artificial intelligence or hybrid intelligence where a part of our brain will get information from the cloud and the other half is from you, so all this stuff will happen in the future. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family. -- Dorianne Laux
When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because theres a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of The Vampire Diaries where Tyler is the first successful hybrid thats made. -- Michael Trevino
When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of 'The Vampire Diaries' where Tyler is the first successful hybrid that's made. -- Michael Trevino
I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today. -- Bill Richardson
We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. -- Brian Roberts
There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash. -- Grace Slick
I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad. -- Frank Iero
I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later. -- Teddy Thompson
I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid. -- Jessica Hagedorn
In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting a recycling program in your office makes a difference. Reusing what you already have has always been green - from clothes to boxes to glass jars from the supermarket. -- Rachel Boston
Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person. -- David Foster Wallace
Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He's got these anger issues that you can't believe. He's like John McCain if McCain could fart hail. He's pro-slavery, he's pro-polygamy, he's homophobic, he'll kill you for masturbating. -- Bill Maher
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest. -- Richard Hammond
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self. -- Lewis Thomas
Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting. -- Austin Carlile
Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.' -- Lou Reed
There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience. -- Christoph Waltz
hybrid, n. A pooled issue. -- Ambrose Bierce
My accent's become a weird hybrid. -- Anthony LaPaglia
Taylor's music is a hybrid with integrity -- Joel Selvin
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. -- Norman Mailer
I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car. -- Michael Franti
Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid. -- Ryan Montgomery
Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature. -- David Byrne
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. -- John Baldessari
Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss -- Diablo Cody
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation. -- Jason Alexander
My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film. -- Judd Nelson
Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com. -- Ram Shriram
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. -- Todd Gitlin
My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there. -- Guillermo E. Brown
I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American [food]. -- Anthony Bourdain
Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback. -- Felix Kramer
People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case. -- Martin Winterkorn
Each customer has unique deployment needs, and as a result, CIOs value the flexibility that our hybrid cloud offerings provide. -- Amy Hood
I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles. -- Bernie Sanders
The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car. -- Martin Winterkorn
I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show. -- Debi Mazar
A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. -- Elon Musk
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency. -- Yanis Varoufakis
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world. -- Matthea Harvey
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love. -- Gene Luen Yang
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.' -- Brian K. Vaughan
The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid. -- C. V. Wedgwood
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. -- Douglas Brinkley
Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative. -- Fred Ritchin
The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine. -- Sean Astin
I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality. -- Sean Parker
Check the card before you play. If you have a couple of long par 3s, put an extra hybrid in your bag. You'll be glad you did. -- Ernie Els
A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight. -- Buzz Aldrin
Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology -- Rosa DeLauro
Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake. -- Robert Dean
I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries. -- Mel Gibson
I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time. -- Toks Olagundoye
I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist. -- Laurel Nakadate
New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle. -- Allan Kozinn
When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam. -- Michael Ramirez
... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from -- Steve Vai
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive. -- Gregor Mendel
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored. -- Pauline Kael
I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original [movie], which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became kind of a hybrid. I really enjoyed that. -- Danny Elfman
Why do you sound surprised? I love America. Just because I think gay dudes should be allowed to adopt kids and we should all have hybrid cars doesn't mean I don't love America? -- LIZ
The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them -- Paul Dourish
I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said. -- Merrill Markoe
Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long. -- Brendan I. Koerner

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