Corny Quotes - Page 11

• I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.

  T.C. Boyle

  Night, Dope, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

  Ronee Blakley

  Real, Heartfelt, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

  Kanye West

  Musician, Booty, Freak

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I'm not going to try to be too young because at the end of the day, I'm not 20 anymore. I don't want to sound corny or look corny doing young things. All the stuff that the kids are doing, that's not my place. I believe that everyone followed me back then, they're still here. That's who I'm trying to talk to and relate to. All the trap music and all of that, it's great but I can't do that. I'm going to stay vintage Ginuwine and stay at the place that got me here. That's what people want.

  Ginuwine

  Believe, Kids, Vintage

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing. Often you think it's going to be one way and then it goes another way - you think you can chart a character and then other things happen. That's the amazing thing about our jobs, it's constantly changing and it's extremely dynamic and you therefore have to be dynamic as well.

  Sarah Gadon

  Jobs, Character, Journey

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

  Beth Gibbons

  Sound, Aviation, Bristol

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• Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love.' Beep. 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.'

  Andy Rooney

  Being Positive, Great Day, Machines

  "Curmudgeon Explains the Throne Speech" by Bill Tieleman, www.straight.com. February 17, 2005.

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• Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

  Tom Stoppard

  Suffering, Politics, Revolution

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Disappointment, Kids, Surround Sound

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Interesting, Imitation, Commonplace

  Quoted in Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin My Autobiography (1964).

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• Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

  Nick Stahl

  Men, Thinking, Magic

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• No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

  Paul Simon

  Silence, Listening, Sound

  "Song: The Sounds of Silence (Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.)". October 1964.

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• Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Vocabulary, Sound

  "Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete". Records Quarterly magazine, vol. 2, n° 1, 1987.

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• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Media, Television, Spheres

  Times Literary Supplement 10 June 1960

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• There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

  Satyajit Ray

  Pakistan, Gone, Half

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

  Ezra Pound

  Believe, Views, Church Music

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• Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

  Mary Pickford

  Movie, Venus De Milo, Sound Doctrine

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

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• The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

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• It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

  Talcott Parsons

  Views, Development, Safe

  TALCOTT PARSONS (1937). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Mean, Law, Agendas

  Parkinson's Law ch. 3 (1957)

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• I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Portraits, Kind, Intimate

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• Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Thinking, Television, Way

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• First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Player, Firsts

  "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed" by Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

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• I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

  Holly Black

  Powerful, Eye, Black

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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