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I can wipe my mouth on my sleeve, napkin on the table, chew with my mouth open, make little noises, scratch wherever I want.
I've been tailoring and making my own clothes from scratch ever since, so everything in my closet is uniquely my own.
So I thought, okay, I'll try and make an electric toaster from scratch.
The company had recently gone public, so as part of my job application, I read the IPO filings from cover to cover and built a website from scratch which included my analysis of the business and four ideas for new features.
He told himself it was necessary to make them from scratch.
So we had to throw everything out the window and start from scratch.
Hazel Clausen is an anthropologist who took a sabbatical and decided, "You know, I would learn a lot about culture if I created a culture that doesn't exist from scratch."
Every November, tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000-word novel, from scratch, in 30 days.
Originally, it was bread crumbs that were used to scratch away pencil marks and later, rubber and pumice.
I mean what other kind of fish, if you approach it right, will say, "Okay, scratch me right there."
Although you're looking for a drug that can solve aging in old men like me, what you could do now pretty well in the lab, if you were allowed ethically, is start a human life from scratch with altered genes that would make it live for a lot longer?
We haven't begun to scratch the surface of what travel could be because we haven't looked at what religions do with travel.
You can use software like Google SketchUp to create products from scratch very easily.
Their goal was to build a demo smart city from scratch.
And the idea is that the character has an inner motor, a dominant, unconscious goal that they're striving for, an itch that they can't scratch.
Even after his father died, he was still trying to scratch that itch.
And here on Earth, amazing experiments are being done to try to create life from scratch, life that might be very different from the DNA forms we know.
And instead of applying feeble human minds to designing these tools from scratch, there were these ready-made solutions right out there in nature developed and refined steadily for millions of years by the greatest engineer of all.
CA: I mean, there are other programs started from scratch.
And so it was expensive to do, but it was a much more efficient path than starting from scratch.
And I like this phrase: "Scratch your own itch."
(Skateboard sounds) And the sounds you're hearing came from eight microphones attached to obstacles around the park, and it sounds like chaos, but actually all the tricks start with a very distinct slap, but successful tricks end with a pop, whereas unsuccessful tricks more of a scratch and a tumble, and tricks on the rail will ring out like a gong, and voices occupy very unique frequencies in the skate park.
And I said, "Well, no vault, Buzz, we generated all that from scratch."
As I looked through the photos, there were some were over a hundred years old, some still in the envelope from the processing lab, I couldn't help but think as a retoucher that I could fix that tear and mend that scratch, and I knew hundreds of people who could do the same.
Why should he have to start from scratch?
And this caused me to scratch my head, because as I went back through his several-hundred-page book, I couldn't find a single figure, chart, table, reference or footnote.
And how do you build a list like that from scratch?
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle "what's mine is thine, what's thine is mine," the kind of mindset that operates within a family, for example; dominance, whose principle is "don't mess with me;" reciprocity, "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours;" and sexuality, in the immortal words of Cole Porter, "Let's do it."
It's scratch.mit.edu, and give a try at coding.
She can scratch her back, she can scratch one of us, she can play another game.
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