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• I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

  A-Trak

  Ducks, Sound, Sauce

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.

  Doseone

  Hearing

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenager, Long, Hip Hop

  "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

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• The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Virginia, Hands, Sweaters

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We also had a team of costumers that would do samples for us, of fabrics, textures, people doing silhouettes of things up on dress forms, just to kind of inform the design process. Through all of that we got to the point that we had to figure out how to light them up. So that was a huge undertaking.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Team, Design Process, Light

  "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.

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• It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Light, Hands, Ultrasounds

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• All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Chance, Mates, Enjoy

  "Louis hasn't gone all showbiz just yet - fish-finger sandwiches still do it for him" by Beth Hardie, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2012.

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• When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Doctors, People

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.197, Island Press

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• The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

  Coventry Patmore

  Promise, Barns, Wheat

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."

  Paul Davies

  Mushrooms, Space, Tree

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Years, Everyday

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Magazines, Tests, Drawers

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Clothes, Designer, Shows

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix.

  Hari Nef

  Men, Body, Way

  Source: wwd.com

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• I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix. I don't really understand, when we have so much conversation about the barriers being broken down, how you can have one side of the store and the other side of the store, and men's wear is cheaper.

  Hari Nef

  Men, Broken, Way

  Source: wwd.com

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• I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.

  Jens Lekman

  Two, Records, Ridiculous

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum sound.

  Joey Sturgis

  Unique, Engineering, Order

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. Initially I was attracted by the typical Pop Art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; I preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of Albers, Bill, Calderara, Lohse, etc.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Illustration, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. Then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. But after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so I developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Numbers, Arbitrary

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• The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.

  Darrell Huff

  Mean, Cost, Use

  Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Night, Two, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

  Timbaland

  Kids, Sound, Keyboards

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds.

  N.D. Wilson

  Children, Aka, Hair

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.294, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Soul

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