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- Nov 07, 2020
Disk Quotes
One word, several very different meanings.
This page gathers quotes that use "disk" in unrelated senses - saving a thought like a computer stores a file, and a spinal disk condition that caused real, lasting discomfort.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good.
- Cassette
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two, almost three years, and had all my work on it - email, which was stored locally; photos; fragments of poems; presentations; sketches; ideas; love letters; everything. I lamented the loss to my friends and got lectured on doing backups.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voyager found Saturn to be a planet with a complex interior, atmosphere, and magnetosphere. In its rings - a vast, gleaming disk of icy rubble - the mission recorded signs of the same physical mechanisms that were key in configuring the early solar system and similar disks of material around other stars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every type of ring behavior we have seen around Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune can be found in orbit around Saturn. And Saturn's ring system offers the greatest promise of understanding processes in operation within all disk systems, not just those found around planets.
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- Nov 07, 2020