Stations Quotes - Page 7

• Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

  Ani DiFranco

  Play, World, Explanation

  Song: Self Evident

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• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Radio, Corporations, Majority

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• If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

  Robert Cailliau

  Average, Abuse, Citizens

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• I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moon, Thinking, Ideas

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• I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

  Peter Dinklage

  Railroads, Abandoned

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

  Joe Elliott

  America, Rocks, Two

  "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

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• The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

  Charles Frazier

  Teenage, Wind, Two

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• One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

  Ira Glass

  People, World, Speech

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.

  Marc Garneau

  Space, Achievement, Ongoing

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• People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

  Martin Gore

  Song, America, People

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• Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

  Marc Andreessen

  Distance, Party, Phones

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

  Tom Waits

  Song: Burma-Shave, Album: Foreign Affairs

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• I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

  Al Yankovic

  Tongue, Bathroom, Clean

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• I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

  Al Yankovic

  Self, Gas Stations, Use

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• Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Space, Orbit

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• Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  People, Band, Form

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• Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Night, Rapper, Ipods

  "British Rapper Tinie Tempah Gets Up Close & Personal With Serial Optimist". Interview with Rawiya Kameir, www.serialoptimist.com. December 16, 2010.

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• mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Mosquitoes, Ankles, Insects

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• Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Favors, May

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• This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.

  Sparky Anderson

  Believe, Taken, School

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• self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Self, People, Mind

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.104

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• Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.

  William J. Mitchell

  Filling Up, Electric Vehicles, Worry

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

  Fanny Fern

  Husband, Hands, Law

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Fresh Leaves”, p.257, Litres

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• I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Police, Way, Married

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• In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, People

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.11

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