Quotes with sound

Quotes 81 till 100 of 204.

  • Bill Laswell If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • B. W. Powe If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 92
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Satchel Paige If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Alvin Adams In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Barack Obama In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Joseph Cannon In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
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  • Brendan Dooling In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Jerry Brown It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
    Jerry Brown
    American politician (1938 - )
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  • Thorstein Veblen It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Blake Mycoskie It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Bill Bryson It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Alain de Botton It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Busy Philipps It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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