Noise Quotes - Page 33

• I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

  Adrian Grenier

  Self, Taught, Musician

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• There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

  Baratunde Thurston

  Hip Hop, Pay, Hips

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• I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.

  Nikki Giovanni

  New York, Careers, House

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

  Eric Lange

  Silence, Want, World

  "Eric Lange from FX's hit show The Bridge". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.

  Russell Simmons

  Meditation, Tools

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The always-connected culture isn't as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn't need a new toy.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Grace, Mind

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• If you play basketball, you get into the zone. You can't miss. That's the expansive mindset we're all seeking. But that only comes when the mind is quiet and separate from the noise. And the greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.

  Russell Simmons

  Basketball, Play, Meditation

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Since populists never miss an opportunity to create a lot of noise about anti-Europe stance. However, the repercussions of the British referendum could quickly put a stop to such crass rabble-rousing, as it should soon become clear that the UK was better off inside the EU - economically, socially and in foreign policy terms.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Opportunity, Europe, Missing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It should go without saying that you are not doing anything wrong by having sex in your own home, and based on the care you've taken to keep things relatively quiet it's unlikely that you're violating any city noise ordinances.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Sex, Taken, Home

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.

  Paul Morley

  Sky, Groups, Odd Things

  Source: www.chaoscontrol.com

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• I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rocks, Talking

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, White, Perspective

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Whoever has become a servant of the Lord fears only his Master. But whoever is without the fear of God is often afraid of his own shadow. Fearfulness is the daughter of unbelief. A proud soul is the slave of fear; hoping in itself, in comes to such a state that it is startled by a small noise, and is afraid of the dark.

  John Climacus

  Inspirational, Christian, Daughter

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• The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

  Jacques Monod

  Annoying, Concerts, Whole

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• I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, People, Progress

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that tends to encourage barking. The problem you've got is that the kind of materials that absorb noise are difficult to clean. One of the biggest problems in the design of animal shelters is that animals are barking and it's like the sound of a jet plane taking off.

  Temple Grandin

  Running, Dog, Animal

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.

  Bill Mollison

  Night, Animal, Opposites

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that flying slow and high is in general better for fitness than flying fast and low except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that being monogamous is in general better for fitness than being polygamous... except when there are effects of interacting variables... It's not that the underlying generalizations are there but imperceptible in the ambient noise.

  Jerry Fodor

  Flying, Example, Variables

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

  Natalie Portman

  Country, Upset, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Children, Kids, Fairness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises.

  Taylor Momsen

  Home, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have to save my voice for stage, so the least I can do is a song.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Voice, Phones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard not to make any noise. They will climb into a tree and stare out over hostile territory for hours. They are waiting for the right opportunity. And then they attack.

  Jane Goodall

  Opportunity, Tree, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In my workshop, I like to have the TV on for background noise, but I only put on shows that you don't really need to watch in serial order; stuff you can glance up every once in a while and still know what's going on; for example, Cops reruns, Jeopardy!, and Forensic Files.

  William Gurstelle

  Order, Background Noise, Example

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• I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

  Donald Trump

  Character, People, Broken

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2016.

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