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• It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity - provided that the buyer is informed and experienced and he practices adequate diversification. For, if the price is low enough to create a substantial margin of safety, the security thereby meets our criterion of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opportunity, Practice, Safety

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• I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Interesting, Fiction

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.

  DJ Spooky

  Memories, Different, Sampling

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

  DJ Spooky

  Writing, Mean, Roots

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is what I was going for in my book "Sound Unbound" was to try and get people to figure out how do we unpack some of the meanings that go into these kinds of sonically coded landscapes.

  DJ Spooky

  Book, Simple, People

  Big Think Interview, April 8, 2010.

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• On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.

  DJ Spooky

  Hands, Symphony, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

  DJ Spooky

  Trying, World, Levels

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.

  DJ Spooky

  Glasses, Bird, Bats

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're.

  DJ Spooky

  Real, Ocean, Mean

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The sun you know the heart of our solar system makes noise. Even interstellar phenomena like black holes. You know people have studied them and a black hole can emit sound in like the range of 20,000 octaves below B flat.

  DJ Spooky

  Heart, People, Black

  Source: bigthink.com

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• So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea of elusive and intangible things. That could be psychological. It could be perceptual. It could be just the way your ears help you just navigate around.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Thinking, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you just want to see everything and navigate. You know the art world is similar. Like I wish people would use their ears a lot more.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Eye, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

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• Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.

  Randy Thom

  Couple, Awards, Editing

  "Potato, potahto, craft, tech, let’s call the whole thing off", uproxx.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Clever, Moving

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• Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Oracles, These Days, Physicist

  "The Dark River". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2007.

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• More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.

  Beth Revis

  Heart, Missing, Clock

  Beth Revis (2011). “Across the Universe”, p.55, Penguin

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• There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes, trained not to think for themselves, will swallow any egregious rot, provided it is dressed up with long words and an affectation of objectivity to make it sound scientific.

  Anthony Standen

  Teacher, Science, Thinking

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• Someone gave me Roman Candle from Cavity Search when it came out. I was just starting to do A&R in the record business, and I remember being in my Volvo 240 in Silverlake, which is every bit the cliche it sounds like, sitting in front of my house playing the songs over and over again. It was the punkest record I had heard in so long.

  Luke Wood

  Song, Long, House

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

  Cass Sunstein

  Ideas, Cost, Regulation

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Everyday though, I'm just looking for like- I always ask people, What are you listening to? What sounds are good to you? Alot of people are in their car, in the club or on the internet looking and I just don't do any of that. Usually if I'm out and about it's because I have something to do, because I'm like a really big home body. If I'm at home, im watching Nickelodeon cartoons so sometimes I'm out of the loop with the cool music, but for sure I'm predicting that J.Cole is going to be good.

  Jhene Aiko

  Home, Car, People

  Source: earstyle.net

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• I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Russia, Japan

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• But Stacie Orrico was my childhood hero. I was about 12 when I found her music. She is a contemporary Christian artist, and I can honestly tell you that I don't think I'd have a soulful voice if I didn't listen to Stacie. I wanted to sound just like her growing up, and to this day I STILL think I sound a little bit like her. But she is AMAZING!

  Christina Grimmie

  Christian, Growing Up, Hero

  Source: joonbug.com

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