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• When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

  Burton Cummings

  Car, Singing, Trying

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• My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes

  Les Paul

  Long, Guy, Mind

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• I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

  Dele Momodu

  Character, Frustration, Wish

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• If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Disappear Completely, Practice

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

  Louis Malle

  Keys, Stories, Elbows

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• Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Silence, Important, Silence Is

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• The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

  Glenn Gould

  Past, Planes, Horizontal

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• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Country, Beach

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

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• In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Prayer, Angel, Echoes

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• What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Doe, Body

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• I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Home, Play, Matter

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• Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

  Tommy Chong

  Hitting, Comedy, Jazz

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Forget Everything, Pieces, Paper

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• I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the day came from a large but shapely woman sitting nearby whom I learned was the owner of a local lingerie shop. 'Beh oui,' she said to her companion, waving her spoon for emphasis, 'il faut du temps pour la corsetterie.' You can't argue with that. I made a mental note not to rush things next time I was shopping for a corset, and leaned back to allow the waiter through with the next course.

  Peter Mayle

  Shopping, People, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 26, 2011

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• My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

  Anthony

  Writing, Boss, Best Experiences

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• Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.

  Rae Armantrout

  Lying, Book, Talking

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• True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Lying, Form

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Heart, Moments

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• A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.

  Jay Leno

  Reading, Men, Florida

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• You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

  Alan Watts

  Play, Forget, Forget It

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• Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously , everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

  David Zindell

  Reality, Sound, Events

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• We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of us, equally. No one can say how it will turn out down here. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense a stirring of the breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Sea

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• Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy
  that moves me!

  Alan Rufus

  Moving, Self, Design

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• The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines and takes no note of disagreeable details. The present enjoys no such advantage, and so it always seems defective.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Eye, Long Ago

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be able to write it? Nobody, except merely its external facts... all its councils, designs and discussions having been conducted by Congress [behind] closed doors - and no members, as far as I know, having even made notes of them. These, which are the life and soul of history, must forever be unknown.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Doors, Forever

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