Corny Quotes - Page 10

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

  Beth Gibbons

  Sound, Aviation, Bristol

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• It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Sound, Acoustics, Instruments

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 29, 2013

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• A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

  Suzi Quatro

  Sound, Bass, Woods

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• From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sound, Shooting, Firsts

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• To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

  Annette Funicello

  Decades, Predictable

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• The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

  Libby Houston

  Plato, Land, Radio

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• I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Doors, Joy, Sound

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• I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

  Nick Mancuso

  Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

  Nat Friedman

  Creating, Issues, Guy

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• As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

  Bobby Sherman

  Teenage, Idols, Advice

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• There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Style, Belief

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• When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Guy, Competitors

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• I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

  Stan Getz

  Sound, Use, Bass

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• People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

  George Steinbrenner

  Agreement, People, Doe

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• I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.

  Chris Kyle

  Home, Heart, Land

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.

  Martha Smith

  Country, India, Example

  "Martha Smith on: The Impact of the Bravo Test". PBS interview for "Race for the Superbomb" on "American Experience",

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• I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

  Bill Griffith

  Hate, Kids, Thinking

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• As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

  Calvin Trillin

  Inspirational, Writing, Sound

  Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA

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• As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

  Cass Sunstein

  Race, Matter, Segregation

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• It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Enthusiastic, Protagonists

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• Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.

  Richard Meltzer

  Depth, Might, Enough

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• The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it’s not what’s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It’s not even what’s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it’s what’s in your heart.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Heart, Mind, Sound

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

  Michael Herr

  Cities, Vegas, Feelings

  Guy Peellaert, Michael Herr (1986). “The big room”

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• Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

  Lori Loughlin

  Fashion, Married, Designer

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