Corny Quotes - Page 4

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  You know I've had work banned.

  Kathy Acker

  Banned, Knows

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• Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Thanksgiving, Good Life, Women

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  Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  Plato

  Music, Plato, Soul

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• I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  August, Kansas

  "A Wonderful Guy" (song) (1949)

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• My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

  Harry Houdini

  Men, Records, Wonderful

  Harry Houdini (2007). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete ExposT”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

  Vin Diesel

  Character, Play, Sound

  "Vin Diesel Talks Finally Getting the Sequel Made, Going “Bare Bones” for Creative Freedom, and More on the Set of RIDDICK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

  Don Ellis

  Years, Style, Hips

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• It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Sound, Eras, Computer

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

  Joseph Hume

  Corn, Proof, Port

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• An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Prayer, Inspirational Life, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

  Wayne Coyne

  Song, Sound, Familiar

  "The Flaming Lips Interview From Noise11.com Archives". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Obvious Things, Sound

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• The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Years, Long

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• It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

  Oscar Peterson

  Important, Sound, Groups

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Jan 24, 2012

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• To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

  Bobby Vinton

  Mean, Echoes, Sound

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• But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

  Billie Burke

  People, Laughing, Sound

  Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.248, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

  Thomas Perry

  Fun, Hero, Character

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing

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• It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

  Josiah Warren

  Real, Sound, Wealth

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• The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Men, White Man, Long

  Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster

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• The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

  Lester Bangs

  Art, Real, Writing

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• In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

  Michael Schumacher

  Sports, Years, Perfect

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• We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Tunes, Might, Matter

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• Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound corny; it just honestly did. The only sounds were the droning crickets and chip-chips of the bats, the farawy wind against the sand, and the occasional distant yowl of a dingo. There were no car horns.No trains. No jack-hammers. No lawnmowers No planes. No sirens. No alarms. No anything human. If you'd told me that you'd saved me from a nuclear holocaust, I might have believed you.

  Lucy Christopher

  Mean, Wind, Two

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• To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.

  Austin Mahone

  Song, Laughing, Listening

  "Austin Mahone On His New Album, Touring With Taylor Swift And Why He’s NOT The Next Justin Bieber (Exclusive)". Interview With Taylor Trudon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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