Assembly Line Quotes - Page 1

Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.
Mike Rogers / U.s. Representative
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Assembly Line
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Honda
Lines
November
Lincoln
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Opened
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I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.
Kevin Nash / Professional Wrestler
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Assembly Line
Detroit
Grew
Mentality
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It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
Gil Kane / Artist
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Assembly Line
Drawing
Infinity
Lines
Looks
Tables
Exactly
Rows
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When you record and tour year after year without a break, it starts to feel like you're on an assembly line.
David Draiman / Songwriter
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Assembly Line
Break
Record
Line
Tour
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I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
Andy Grove / Businessman
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Assembly Line
Bloody
Chips
Nuisance
Designed
Memory
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If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu / Film Director
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Crashed
Driver
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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 / Filmmaker
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Assembly Line
Confused
Lines
Taken
Trajectory
Life Always My Life
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
America
Artist
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Assembly Line
Consumption
Goal
Mass
North America
Standardization
Dominated
Production
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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 / Journalist
Age
Assembly
Assembly Line
Digital
Digital Age
Invisibility
Lines
Workers
Rise
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Now, I love a good factory tour. Drop me into a bottling plant, an automotive assembly line, or a jellybean factory, and I'm happy as a clam at high tide.
Marc Randolph /
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Plant
Love Good Me
Drop
Factory
Tide
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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 / Movie Producer
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Assembly Line
Lines
Projects
Slate
Studios
Charge
Executive
Project
Line
Producer
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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 / Television Actor
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Assembly Line
Cutting
Dry
Producers
Special
Tv Shows
Cut
Exceptions
Tv Show
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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 / Singer
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Assembly Line
Lines
Motown
Song
Big Part
Cranking
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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 / Advertising Executive
Dream
Advertising
Agency
Assembly
Assembly Line
Deals
Human Needs
Needs
Advertising Agency
Hopes
Immediately
Line
Product
Turned
Wants
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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 / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
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Assembly Line
California
Father
Health Care
Mother
Organize
Workers
Years
Member
Union
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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 / Filmmaker
Jobs
Dad
Assembly
Assembly Line
Division
General Motors
Littles
Worker
Motors
Plug
Spark
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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 / Character Actor
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Assembly Line
Perfect
Revolving
Television
Theater
Thinking
Factory
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As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process. From the end of the assembly line, what happened in manufacturing wasn't visible to me.
Ron Williams /
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Assembly Line
Ceo
Creation
Manufacturing
Visible
Portfolio
Buyer
Participant
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The economic model was formed by the constraints that I had: a small space, relatively inexpensive building materials, relatively inexpensive investment, a very efficient service line or assembly line.
Steve Ells /
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Assembly Line
Constraints
Efficient
Inexpensive
Investment
Materials
Formed
Relatively
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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 / Comedian
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Assembly Line
Bollywood
Joining
People
Struggle
Unique
Line
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The whole reason why we have this kind of assembly line model of education that we inherited from the Prussians, is they were the first people - it's a very egalitarian motive - to say how do we educate everyone.
Sal Khan /
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Egalitarian
First People
Inherited
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Television shows are not like cars or operating systems, and they are not best made by engineers or coders in the same assembly line manner as consumer products which need to be of uniform size, shape, and quality.
John Landgraf / Executive Producer
Quality
Car
Assembly
Assembly Line
Engineers
Operating Systems
Products
Shows
Size
Television
Television Shows
Consumer
Line
Manner
Operating
Shape
Systems
Uniform
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Assembly
Assembly Line
Benefits
Cows
Livestock
Retirement
Steady
Wages
General
Corporation
Enviable
Line
Standard
Provided
Putting
Retirement Benefits
Steady Job
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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 / Anthropologist
Medical
Assembly
Assembly Line
Caring
Faculty
Faculty Members
Intimate
Relation
School
Somewhere
Curing
Informed
Member
Schools
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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 / Entrepreneur
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Assembly Line
Great Things
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Walks
Great Done People
Great People Done
Valley
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I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.
Steve Harvey / Actor
Jobs
Assembly
Assembly Line
Dying
Employee
Miserable
Singing
Work Great Man
Loved
Cause
Coming
Cut
Times
Fired
Line
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I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get money for that. I did a pilot about minimum wage workers for HBO that didn't get picked up; they thought it was depressing, even though it was a comedy.
Richard Linklater / Film Director
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Assembly Line
Automobile
Depressing
Hbo
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Workers
Picked
Pilot
Wage
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Christmas
Assembly
Assembly Line
Family Christmas Together
Awesome
Dish
Event
So Much Fun
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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 / Professor
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Assembly Line
Possibility
Work Better Will
Factory
Requires
Single Individual
Skill
Smaller
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When I see stimulus money being used to attack American companies and American workers, I think it would be very unsettling to be working on the assembly line of Coca Cola, look up, and see an ad that's trying to hurt the very job that you make your wages and pay taxes from.
Scott Desjarlais /
American Workers
Assembly
Assembly Line
Stimulus
Wages
Workers
Money Your Look
Ad
American Companies
Attack
Being Used
Unsettling
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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 / Journalist
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Assembly Line
Cheaper
Global Economy
World Way More
Anywhere Else
World Way End
Ended
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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 / Author
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Assembly Line
Fourth
Salesman
Selling
Worker
Maker
Elementary
Right Away
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My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.
Mary Barra /
Jobs
Quality
Assembly
Assembly Line
Examining
General Motors
Scale
General
Checking
First Job
Hour
Inspector
Line
Motors
Shift
Teaches
Value
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