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Operator! Give me the number for 911! -- Dan Castellaneta
I thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s. -- Rush Limbaugh
I thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s. -- Rush Limbaugh
I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National. -- Norma McCorvey
It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator. -- Simon Travaglia
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. -- Conrad Black
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether. -- Nathan Myhrvold
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest. -- Stephanie Courtney
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles. -- S. Truett Cathy
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. -- Harold Coffin
I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force. -- Sinbad
Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in. -- Adam Driver
In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people. -- Bill Hader
There's always room for an operator like Airbnb, but it's quite a different thing to my serviced apartments. Airbnb is a different market - it has nothing to do with me. -- Harry Triguboff
I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator. -- Sam Walton
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers. -- Gary Wolf
The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years. -- Dennis Washington
We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator. -- Hans Vestberg
Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore. -- Dennis Muren
If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. -- Spencer Abraham
Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with our audience - be they young or old, Democrats or Republicans, rich or poor, religious or secular. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video. -- Eric Schmidt
A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle. -- Harry Houdini
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. -- Orville Wright
TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all. -- John Mica
When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won. -- Orville Wright
When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important. -- Hans Vestberg
I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball. -- Monte Irvin
I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator. -- Rachel Cohn
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy. -- Larry Wall
A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself. -- Edwin Lefevre
Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening? -- Melina Marchetta
We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You might be a redneck if the Home Shopping Channel operator recognizes your voice. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God. -- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: `Basement?' -- Rodney Dangerfield
I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it. -- Lee Trevino
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. -- Bertrand Russell
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator. -- Garth Nix
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator. -- Helen Gurley Brown
People have been oversold, over-branded, overhyped, over-promised. And they basically trust a small local operator more than they trust the big corporate entity. -- Ronald M. Shaich
Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator. -- Ray Kroc
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. -- Anne Carson
I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart. -- John Knowles
Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator. -- Ilchi Lee
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket. -- Donald Barthelme
Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East. -- Neill Blomkamp
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business. -- Lee Iacocca
The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator. -- Guy Kawasaki
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy. -- Robert Harris
Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants. -- Bing Crosby
The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures. -- Wendell Berry
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector. -- C. S. Lewis
I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates
Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of. -- John Steinbeck
While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur. -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau
If you look at the causes of the accidents, quite a few of them are operator error. We need people to be diligent and follow the rules of the road and drive more defensively. -- Bob McKenzie

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