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• I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see,
  there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Two, Echoes, Years

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• Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

  Barack Obama

  People, Giving, Together

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an individual accomplishment that someone is imposing upon you by listening to them read it. Because you're listening to their interpretation, and their emphasis would probably be different from the one that your brain makes while you're reading it.

  John Larroquette

  Reading, Thinking, Accomplishment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just see many, many untruthful things. I see tone, the word tone. The tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way.The tone is such - I do get good ratings, you have to admit that.

  Donald Trump

  Hatred, Way, Rating

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same. It's just that you can go back and try and improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens. That tone or work ethic is nice.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Character, Work Ethic

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The top 25 at every company really set the tone. Everyone watches them. They need to be present and focused. No slackers at the top. They need to meet in combination every recruit. They need to meet them on the first day. They need to teach by example. This is the lesson that great companies teach.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Example, Watches, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Writing, Light

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Letting Go, Drama, Opportunity

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

  Irvine Welsh

  Reality, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Matter, Ifs

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.

  Miles Davis

  People, Sound, Trumpets

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and what the language is; not just the last sentence, but enough of the sentences surrounding that last sentence to know what the tone of voice is. I imagined it as something almost musical. Then you are writing toward something; you know the sound of your voice at the end of the story. That's how you want to sound in those final sentences: the degree that it is uplifting or not, the degree that it is melancholic or not.

  John Irving

  Uplifting, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, School, Mean

  "Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat". Interview with Pat Mitchell, en.tiny.ted.com.

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• I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

  Tori Amos

  Drunk, Water, Way

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• As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

  Alan Ball

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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• Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

  Lester Bangs

  Rocks, Noise, Acoustics

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

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• I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

  Tyra Banks

  Work Out, Looks, Matter

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• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  Saint Basil

  Should Have, Voice, Silence

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• Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

  Annie Besant

  Writing, Names, Captivity

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.425, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Rocks, Games, Band

  "Rock Band vs. Real Band". www.slate.com. November 27, 2007.

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• My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

  Eric Clapton

  Echoes, Guitar, Voice

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

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• Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

  Joan Collins

  Discipline, Devil, Age

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• The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Moral, Higher

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• A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

  Louis C. K.

  Movie, Struggle, Creating

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• Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Perspective, Shadow

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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