Hybrid Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

Mark Bradford

#3. In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, electric vehicle and FCV, corresponding to the simultaneous diversification of energy sources.

Yoshikazu Tanaka

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

Martin Winterkorn

#7. 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

#8. They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.

Dawn Ostroff

#9. Forward-thinking organizations seek hybrid professionals who are highly proficient writers, analytical, creative, and tech savvy, with strong competencies in business management, information technology (IT), and human behavior.

Paul Roetzer

#10. My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.

Adam Cole

#11. 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

#12. I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

Jason Mraz

#13. Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.

Dennis Cooper

#14. 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

#15. Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models
with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#16. I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.

James Marsters

#17. Oh, great. She could be a hybrid. Just like her sociology teacher's car.

C.C. Hunter

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder ...

Ryan Holiday

#23. Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'

Amanda Seyfried

#24. 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

#25. Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Edgar Meyer

#26. 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

#27. I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

James Van Allen

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think.

John F. Kerry

#31. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the arm of the Pentagon most responsible for shiny, futuristic technology, recently gave a $100,000 grant to Logos Technologies, Fairfax, Va.-based defense tech company, to develop a silent, hybrid-engine motorcycle for the military.

Anonymous

#32. First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

Dan Jenkins

#33. Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

Diablo Cody

#34. Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

John Baldessari

#35. My accent's become a weird hybrid.

Anthony LaPaglia

#36. My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

Judd Nelson

#37. This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not. So you ride your bike to work, or drive a hybrid car - but

John Eldredge

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

Linwood Barclay

#41. 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

#42. Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.

Michael Cunningham

#43. 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

#44. I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.

Bernie Sanders

#45. I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid subjects in order to challenge conventional notions of exclusive belonging, identity and citizenship.

Namsoon Kang

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

Edgar Meyer

#51. Over the years, people have asked me, 'Do you think there should be a separate category for acting in the digital realm? Or hybrid sort of awards for digital characters?' and so on. And I've always really maintained that I don't believe so.

Andy Serkis

#52. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of "How do I get customers for my product?" and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. . . .

Ryan Holiday

#53. 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

#54. ... 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

#55. So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Todd Gitlin

#56. 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

#57. The demiurge is a hybrid

Alfred Kubin

#58. I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

Ryan Tedder

#59. Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

David Bowie

#60. I came up with a 'forecasting cell,' which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go.

Christian Scott

#61. Each customer has unique deployment needs, and as a result, CIOs value the flexibility that our hybrid cloud offerings provide.

Amy Hood

#62. I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.

Jason Alexander

#63. A hybrid nature of organization strikes the right balance between "virtual world" and the human connections.

Pearl Zhu

#64. Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#65. I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.

Lucy Hale

#66. I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

Melissa Leo

#67. I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#68. The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.

Tina Modotti

#69. The capacity to do something horrible to someone who doesn't deserve it is there in everyone, human or hybrid. Being human doesn't make you any less likely to kill someone; being hybrid any more.

Addison Lane

#70. My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger, it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England, it was very British. 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

#71. In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single gamete the Anlagen for a pair of characters. Each combination occurs with approximately the same frequency.

Carl Correns

#72. Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

Paul Engle

#73. What is this, a Hybrid? You guys must be proud of yourselves.

Triple H

#74. The hybrid European - a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all - absolutely requires a costume:

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. 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

#76. Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

David Byrne

#77. The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.

Martin Winterkorn

#78. 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

#79. There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.

Bill Pullman

#80. Oh, you're in television! That's interesting. No, I mean, the word television is interesting. It's a hybrid, you see: tele- comes from the greek, and -vision comes from the latin. It should have been either "telerama", or "procolvision".

Graham Chapman

#81. Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature.

Pearl Zhu

#82. Rich people's garbage was every year more complex, rife with hybrid materials, impurities, impostors. Planks that looked like wood were shot through with plastic. How was he to classify a loofah? The owners of the recycling plants demanded waste that was all one thing, pure.

Katherine Boo

#83. 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

#84. I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

Golan Levin

#85. A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Paul Valery

#86. Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.

Raheel Farooq

#87. The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing that doesn't suit a novelist in action, when he's in the course of writing his novel.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#88. The genres of Hindi cinema are structured very differently from the Hollywood cinema: they are far more hybrid.

Rashmi Doraiswamy

#89. I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.

Al Gore

#90. Writing for publication is an odd hybrid of intimate self-exploration and public exhibitionsim.

Talia Vance

#91. With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

Michael Symon

#92. Hey - let's get something straight. It's a vampire/alien/zombie/warlock hybrid flick.

Julie James

#93. One gets the sense that, for Deleuze, the cinema of the movement-image has been fully realized while that of the time-image is emergent. Comparatively speaking, there are few "pure" examples of films where direct images of time predominate. Mixed or hybrid examples are more common.

D. N. Rodowick

#94. You mean like, if a hybrid drinks from a shifter in the middle of the woods, did it really happen?"
He moved closer until he was peering down at her. "What happens in the woods, stays in the woods.

Marie Johnston

#95. Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

Andrew S. Grove

#96. Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#97. Did I just see you litter?'
'I'm driving a hybrid. It cancels out.

Michelle Hodkin

#98. Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#99. That won't happen, Blayne's hybrid said, and shifted. Shifted into something only Blayne could truly love.
Yep. I'm gonna have freak grandkids.

Shelly Laurenston

#100. Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as I like comics, but I'm not rushing to pay out for a cheap hybrid of the two.

Dave Morris