Sound Quotes - Page 30

• Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.

  Mike Pence

  Morning, Sight, September 11

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

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• Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

  Joe Perry

  Player, Guitar, Common

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• The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

  Joe Perry

  Break Through, Trying, Juice

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• Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

  Katy Perry

  4th Of July, America, Appreciate

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• We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

  Steven Pinker

  Visuals, Creatures, Fades

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• It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

  Michael Pitt

  Wake Up, Cliche, Ifs

  "Q&A with 'Last Days' star Michael Pitt". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.tailslate.net. July 21, 2005.

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• Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

  Martha Plimpton

  Spiritual, Thinking, Cheesy

  "Q&A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton: 'You can’t get stuck in ruts or allow other people to stick you in ruts. You have t' keep challenging yourself'". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. April 19, 2011.

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• The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

  John Podhoretz

  Pay, Problem, More Money

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• A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

  Ezra Pound

  Loathing, Gang, Instinct

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• Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's "fiscal stimulus" and it sounds like a good one to me.

  Lucy Powell

  Moving, Economy, Brown

  "Fiscal policy announcements show Labour and the Tories are diverging at last" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2008.

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• I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

  Dennis Quaid

  Stars, Insecure, People

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Music, Single, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

  Josh Radnor

  Directors, Thrill, Actors

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

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• I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

  Lou Reed

  Running, Blood, Nerves

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• Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.

  Norman Reedus

  Yelling, Leprechaun, Angry

  "Q&A – Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon)". www.amc.com. 2010.

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• Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

  John C. Reilly

  Fighting, Thinking, Games

  "Interview: John C. Reilly on his animated anti-hero "Wreck-It Ralph". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

  Grantland Rice

  Trust, Exercise, Men

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• Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

  Little Richard

  Song, Boys, Night

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

  Kid Rock

  Inspirational, Life And Love, Real

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Jun 24, 2012

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• You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

  David Lee Roth

  Hero, Feelings, World

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

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• My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

  David Lee Roth

  Ambition, Signatures, Spirit

  "Jumping at the Chance - With His Newest Album, David Lee Roth Rocks, Rolls and Moves On". Sacramento Bee, July 03, 1994.

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• I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

  Karl Rove

  Hate, People, Strikes

  "NewsBusters Interview: Karl Rove Slams Lefty Blogosphere, Talks Media, Praises iPhone". www.newsbusters.org. March 21, 2008.

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• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Hate, Insane

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• I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Use, Certain, Dictionary

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• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religion, One Sentence, Sentences

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