Stations Quotes

• People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, People, Dimes

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

  John McCain

  Country, Russia, Gas Stations

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• The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

  Jim Hightower

  Party, Giving, Tvs

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• You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!"

  Robert Stone

  Character, Mean, Space

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• I'm a bit obsessive. I've just bought this Wi-Fi radio, which can pick up 7,500 stations from all over the world. I'm boring my wife to death with it. I've got a thing about technology, so I've got four sat-nav systems and loads of gadgets, including a 100% accurate watch. Any new development and I'm there buying it. My best trait is that I'm happy and optimistic.

  Tony Blackburn

  Optimistic, Technology, Wife

  "Interrogation: Tony Blackburn". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Men, Competition, Battle

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• Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Growth, India

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• A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Children, School, Parent

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• I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

  Esther Williams

  Buying, Gas Stations, Plant

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• Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Nuclear, Cloning

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

  Russell Baker

  Airports, Railroads, Towns

  "Inside the Suit, a Man!". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. November 05, 1986.

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• The Senate has passed a new bill that requires TV stations to lower the volume level on commercials. This is great, a hundred of the most powerful people in the nation have managed to do the same thing my remote does.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Powerful, People, Doe

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• Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Tape, Wagons, Geek

  "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.

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• I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

  Roy Ayers

  Play, Smooth Jazz, Soul

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• It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Clouds, Energy, Needs

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• On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

  Peter Roebuck

  Usual, India, Genius

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• When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Space, Arms, Next

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• There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.

  Frank McCourt

  Art, Miracle, Atmosphere

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• This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.

  Pat Williams

  Mean, Vacation, Keys

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• I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Writing, Thinking, Empathy

  Interview with Allie Tollaksen, ndsmcobserver.com. January 22, 2014.

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• When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.

  Tony Joe White

  Song, Writing, Receiving

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• Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Sports, College, Years

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. August 19, 2009.

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• Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.

  Howard Hesseman

  Real, Jealous, People

  "WKRP In Cincinnati, 'Mike Fright'" by Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2012.

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• Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as 'a shameful state of affairs.' Unsurprisingly, his proposed corrective is to force the transfer of station ownership to greater numbers of minorities, who are statistically more likely to carry liberal talk shows.

  David Limbaugh

  Fcc, Numbers, Diversity

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• Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme.
  Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind's agitations, vikshepas are quietened. As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Mind, Degrees, Agitation

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