Tunes Quotes - Page 31

• I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

  Don Imus

  Thinking, Dresses, Politics

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• Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

  Peter Gabriel

  Kissing, Animal, Baboons

  FaceBook post by Peter Gabriel from Nov 10, 2012

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• Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Play, Long, Mind

  "Islam and us" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2003.

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• He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

  Marie de France

  Tales, Know How, Knows

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

  Colin Hay

  Couple, People, Remember

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• Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

  Robert MacNeil

  Night, News, Television

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• I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

  Roma Downey

  Soul, World, Singers

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

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• What I have found is that my fan base will follow me to whatever I'm doing. They gave me a big tune-in for Hallmark. They were just happy to see me working again, and my job is not to disappoint them, not to cheat them.

  Genie Francis

  Jobs, Fans, Follow Me

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• I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

  Rebecca Black

  Girl, Careers, People

  "Rebecca Black Was Profiled By New York Magazine. Yes, I’m Serious" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. September 26, 2011.

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• A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

  Adam Baldwin

  Watches, Cookies, Stories

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• A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

  Jeff Buckley

  Happenings

  "New Again: Jeff Buckley". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

  Jenson Button

  Uplifting, Fun, Ocean

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• What I do and where I come from, the kind of music that I'm making, it's definitely U.K. If I turned around and did a tune with Timbaland, it would be amazing, but it would be me kind of leaving where I'm coming from.

  Katy B

  Leaving, Would Be, Kind

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• In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

  Les Baxter

  Deserve More, Enough, Made

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• Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Government, Focus, Priorities

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• I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

  Bryan Clay

  Singing, Driving, Shows

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• The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

  Jonathan Coe

  Personality, Sides, Melancholy

  "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

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• When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.

  Linda Cardellini

  Kids, College, Hands

  "Linda Cardellini on Freaks And Geeks, ER, and homewrecking". Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.

  Nick Clegg

  Dream, Thinking, People

  The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Law, President, Dollars

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. August 5, 2012.

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• I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

  Mose Allison

  Couple, People, Dukes

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• There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Character, Writing, Forget

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• When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Waiting, Behinds

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

  Guy Berryman

  Song, Band, Pieces

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• I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic'.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Film, Bigs, Theme

  "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2011.

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