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• I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Badass, Women, Funny Motivational

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• I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Gymnastics, Thinking, People

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• In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: "That must be nice."

  Beth Ditto

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  "I'm 30 and feel under huge pressure to have kids. What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2007.

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• Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.

  David Duchovny

  Mean, Games, People

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• Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Growing Up, Italian, Use

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• Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Thinking, Average, Voice

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

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• Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.

  Ron Fournier

  Past, Order, Giving

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• Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Iraq, Aftermath

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• In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

  Matt Groening

  Skin Color, Yellow, Skin Tone

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• Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

  Matt Groening

  Character, Done, Sometimes

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• I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Writing, Inspire, Knows

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• For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day', I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.

  Kirk Hammett

  Hero, Albums, Used

  "Prime Cuts: Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett Critique Key Songs in the Band's Harsh, Noble History". The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. August 4, 2014.

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• My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Brother, Father

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• The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

  Penn Jillette

  Mtv, People, Use

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

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• There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.

  Milla Jovovich

  Girl, Art, Watching Tv

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• One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

  Michio Kaku

  Talking, Years, Names

  Interview With Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Tone can be as important as text.

  Ed Koch

  Important

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• You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Exercise, Tape

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• Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Feelings, Noise

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• The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Moving, Writing, Family Guy

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

  Gustav Mahler

  Play, Numbers, Orchestra

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• Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Voice, Term, Communicate

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2015

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• Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Parent, Quiet

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Looks, Want, Playboy

  "Jenny McCarthy's Sexy-at-39 Playboy Cover: Sneak Peek" by Dahvi Shira, people.com. June 25, 2012.

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• A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Social, Members, Indifferent

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