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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
Living
Every
Universe
Distance
Immediate
Sphere
Though
Geared
Seemingly
Only
Affected
Surrounding
Infinite
Being
Influence
Engine
External
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
War
Fear
Country
Our
Nurtured
Geared
Propaganda
General
Misguided
Part
Hysteria
Induced
Economy
Arms
Policy
Artificially
Psychosis
Which
Pattern
Bred
Incessant
Now
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
War
Fear
Country
Our
Geared
Propaganda
Hysteria
Induced
Economy
Arms
Artificially
Psychosis
Bred
Incessant
Now
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
Learning
Generation
Culture
People
Values
Parents
Geared
Attempt
Fails
Because
Pass
Always
Cultural
Replicate
Human
Next
Transmission
Next Generation
Skills
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
Alison Bechdel
Young
Books
Geared
More
Adult
Towards
Up
Young Adults
Growing
Growing Up
Starting
Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.
Andrea Anders
Work
Truth
Good
Me
You
Feel Good
Training
School
Honor
Situation
Drama
Geared
About
More
Feel
Towards
Like
Most
Well
Lot
Graduate
Graduate School
Really
Requires
Acting
Need
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
Life
Time
Nursery
Geared
Entire
Entire Life
Stuck
Knew
Towards
Always
Been
Wanted
Wanting
Act
Dedicated
University
I started performing with the Boston Children's Opera when I was 5, and I stayed working with that group until I was about 12 or 13, so that was a huge part of my life. It was, weirdly, an extremely professional environment geared towards kids.
Barrett Wilbert Weed
Life
My Life
Group
Extremely
Kids
Geared
Stayed
About
Boston
Part
Environment
Towards
Weirdly
Performing
Until
Opera
Huge
Huge Part
Children
Working
Professional
Started
I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
Becky Lynch
You
Together
People
Passion
Mind
Think
Out
Geared
About
Something
Excited
Feel
Towards
Performing
Got
How
Improve
Then
Your
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
You
People
Training
Care
Clown
Laugh
Laughs
Geared
About
Had
Toward
Name
Know
Look
How
Making
dont Care
Being
Used
Dedicated
Cool
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
Science
Training
Few
Films
Kids
Geared
Through
Idea
Soon
Toward
Liked
Make
Around
Always
Got
After
Ages
Show
The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
Blake Bailey
People
Monsters
Moral
Geared
Feel
Like
Make
America
Establishment
Whole
Homosexual
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
Me
You
Slow
Other
Everything
Tell
Kind
Geared
Able
Slower
Towards
Read
Tests
Five
Times
Than
Child
Any
Going
Just
Just One
Script
Standardized
Actor
My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
Damian Woetzel
Life
Geared
Toward
Highly
Educated
Person
Being
Whole
It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.
Delta Burke
Work
People
Other
Everything
Broadway
Out
Geared
Puts
Tourists
Towards
New
Get
York
New York
Which
Them
Hard
Many
Star
Now
Compete
Bring
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
Financial
Try
Free
Think
Took
Sector
Administration
Geared
No Question
Tail
Steps
Question
End
Up
Bush
Bush Administration
Specifically
Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.
Dwight Henry
Life
Education
Best
Home
Survival
My Life
Giving
Everything
Kids
Possibly
Geared
Give
Towards
Them
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.
Edmund White
Man
People
Key
Remember
Men
Every
Sick
Sick Man
AIDS
Late
Saw
Everywhere
Geared
Seemed
Could
Had
Supply
Headed
Island
How
Were
West
Afford
Tranquillity
Stores
Warmth
Who
Many
Medical
Early
Early 1990s
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
Law
Real Estate
Startups
Valley
Critical
Critical Mass
Evolved
Geared
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Structure
Support
Toward
Mass
Venture
Accepting
Real
Being
Estate
Capitalists
Engineers
Actually
Arsenal prepare the players in the best way. They pay attention to every detail. We are able to recover optimally during our flights. The food and the service, everything's geared perfectly to each other.
Granit Xhaka
Service
Best
Food
Pay
Pay Attention
Every
Other
Our
Everything
Way
Detail
Geared
Best Way
Able
Recover
Attention
Perfectly
Arsenal
Flights
Prepare
Each
Players
I am geared towards communicating on a female level.
Guy Pearce
Geared
Towards
Female
Am
Communicating
Level
I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.
Indya Moore
Art
Good
School
Enough
High
Geared
High School
Toward
Because
Go
Were
Math
Get
Grades
Wanted
Interested
Acting
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
Myself
Writing
Think
Out
Collecting
Geared
Some
Songs
Part
Toward
Come
Know
Making
Brain
Up
Get
Moment
Even
Things
To be clear, I'm not opposed to apps; I just want them to be geared to my lifestyle. I don't need a virtual NASCAR racing app, but I'd certainly appreciate one that stopped my husband from plowing into the lawnmower every time he pulls into the garage.
Jen Lancaster
Time
Husband
Every
Every Time
Virtual
Apps
Plowing
Geared
Lifestyle
He
Clear
NASCAR
Opposed
Just
Stopped
Want
Them
Racing
App
Certainly
Garage
Need
Appreciate
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
Life
Hope
Music
Guitar
Listening
Pleasure
Geared
Get
Gets
Listener
Want
Much
Whole
Play
Playing
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
Great
Take Advantage
Big
Geared
Take
Excitement
Advantage
Big Screen
Screen
Which
Movies
Mean
Explosions
Basically
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