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• I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

  Andy Milonakis

  Stuff, Bizarre, Shows

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• For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

  Annea Lockwood

  Music, Sound, Momentum

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• The highest tone is hard to hear.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Hard, Highest

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• I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

  Edward Burtynsky

  Thinking, Environmental, Trying

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• Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

  Judith Orloff

  Sweet, Thinking, Giving

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.50, Harmony

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• Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

  Sean Lennon

  Dirty, Water, Energy

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• To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Two, Vibrations

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.74, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your joy. Be a listener, to music, to life, to others, to God. Life is noisy, but there is music in every heartbeat. God is waiting to bring joy and peace to the confusion of our days.

  Sheila Walsh

  Sadness, Confusion, Joy

  Sheila Walsh (1999). “Bring Back the Joy: Rekindling the Joy in Your Relationship with God”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'

  Marianne Williamson

  Attitude, Home, People

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• A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style.

  Scott Yanow

  Style, Fluent

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• We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

  Grover Norquist

  Change, Trying, Nastiness

  "The Great Wealth Shift Upward: Corporatists’ War on the Working Class" by Michele Swenson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.

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• We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Sports, Needs, Analysis

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

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• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  Marguerite Young

  Women, Writing, Names

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• Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Couple, Hypnosis, Historical

  "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Art, Loss, Talking

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.50, Mondial

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Play, Sensual

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

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• When do I say No? I say No when I feel that the intention of the play, or the spirit, or tone - or text! - is being knowingly changed. Fortunately, this has happened only once. Next time I would say No earlier, and definitively. Otherwise, ultimately, the only No you have is No, you can't open the play. And that No is very very hard to say.

  Lisa Loomer

  Play, Crafts, Next

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• I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Believe, Moving

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.

  Alexa Hampton

  Wall, Father, Night

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• Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.

  Sarah Sutton

  Running, Stars, Fun

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• We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

  Christopher Nolan

  Men, Steel, Stay True

  "Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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• My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Voice

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• All it is, is a tone. So I'm gonna come back as a note!

  Rahsaan Roland Kirk

  Notes

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• Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, California

  John Steinbeck (2002). “Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

  Frederick Douglass

  Prayer, Slavery, Deliverance

  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ch. 2 (1845)

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