Stations Quotes - Page 6

• This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.

  John Quincy Adams

  Character, Presidential, Principles

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• I want to make that a reality, ... The idea is to create office space in the unused portions of the station to be leased, hopefully by ING. That would provide a cash flow to Amtrak.

  Thomas Carper

  Office Space, Reality, Cash Flow

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• There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Believe, Ambition, Giving

  "How to win friends & influence people". Book by Dale Carnegie, October 1936.

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• Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

  John Cage

  Art, Design, Trying

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.39, Wesleyan University Press

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• Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty, Beauty, Sublimeness, Grandeur, and Holiness. . . . He to whom the mysteries of La ilaha illa'llah are revealed draws near to God, and his worship of God becomes sincere. He does not turn to anyone but to Him, nor does he have hope in or fear other than Him, nor does he see harm or benefit except as coming from Him. He abandons whosoever is not He and rids himself of inward and outward associationism (shirk).

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Fear, Journey, Doe

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• This is Huntress placing Panta four-five, four-six on battle stations, I repeat battle stations, time one-two-four-one. Authenticate hotel romeo, all parties acknowledge with initials.

  Jeremy Powell

  Party, Two, September 11

  New 9/11 Tapes: Audio And Full Transcripts, news.sky.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Memorable, Dark

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Office, Spheres, Welfare

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.33

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• I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

  Clint Black

  Artist, Media, Perfect

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• I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

  Chris Hadfield

  Thinking, Guitar, Space

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• There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

  John Mellencamp

  Men, Rock And Roll, Hair

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• I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Country, People, Way

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• I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

  Elinor Lipman

  Jobs, Writing, Boston

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• In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fire, Safety, Massachusetts

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• So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Running, Competition, License

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• The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  America, People, Shade

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• It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

  Charley Pride

  Rocks, Atlanta, Way

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• The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

  John L. Phillips

  Two, Space, Different

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• On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

  Patti Page

  Listening, Radio, Jazz

  "Patti Page, Proving That Simple Songs Endure" by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2003.

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• I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

  Lionel Richie

  People, Gas Stations, Fame

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

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• The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Father, Play

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• I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Years, Radio, New Work

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• But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

  Mel Tillis

  Country, Radio, Radio Stations

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• I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I'm madly in love with America.

  Vincent Gallo

  Girlfriend, Smell, America

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

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• It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

  Richard Dawson

  Kings, Crazy, Kissing

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

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