Tunes Quotes - Page 18

• Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

  Ann Landers

  Mistake, Reality, Wind

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• My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Hippie, Games, People

  Quoted in East Village Other, 15 Apr. - 1 May 1966

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• The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Self, World

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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• I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

  Alex Lifeson

  Guitar, Play, Want

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

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• I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

  Steve Martin

  Song, Book, Play

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• The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Magic, Mind, Quiet

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• I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

  Kylie Minogue

  Way, My Way

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• Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

  Jeanne Moreau

  Men, Actresses, Fantasy

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• There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.

  Alanis Morissette

  Energy, Levels, Body

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• I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Baby, Years, Argentina

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• I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

  Graham Norton

  Heart, Sight, Singing

  "Bee Gee lashes out over Norton jokes" by Julia Day, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

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• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Distance, Promise, Borders

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• I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

  Trey Parker

  Football, Two, Trying

  "Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Review of 2011" by A.J. Jacobs, Slide 8, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

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• It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.

  Trey Parker

  Heart, Thinking, Years

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• The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

  Pope Paul VI

  Birthday, Age, Funny Birthday

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• For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

  John Podhoretz

  Confusion, Records, Might

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• Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Car, Parent, Actors

  "From Child Actor To Artist: Radcliffe Reflects On Post-Potter Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wshu.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Car, Listening, Grew Up

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• Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

  Zoe Saldana

  Thinking, Dancing, Ballet

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• Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

  Richie Sambora

  Sports, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Musical, Singing

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

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• 'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Twilight, Kissing

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

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• The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

  Ed Sheeran

  Writing, Gigs

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

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• If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.

  Shel Silverstein

  Care, Littles, Behinds

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• The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Band, Able

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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