Halls Quotes - Page 2

• The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Names, Shapes, Want

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• Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Prayer, Benches

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.46, Penguin

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• What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Fighting, Expression, Taverns

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.107, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

  Neil Young

  Play, Clubs, Rehearsal

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• I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

  Leslie Caron

  Country, Paris, House

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• The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Player, Mind

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• The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

  Rupert Holmes

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

  Lenny Bruce

  Justice, Lawyer, Law And Justice

  "The Comedy Master Turned Martyr" by Stephen Robb, news.bbc.co.uk. August 03, 2006.

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• With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Play, Orchestra, Particular

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• The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

  Hernando Cortes

  Meals, Rooms, Cleaning

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• The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

  Doc Watson

  Matter, Too Much, Size

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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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• Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

  Isaac Stern

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

  Junior Johnson

  Sports, Car, Fans

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• I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Class, Everyday, India

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• I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

  Curt Flood

  Jobs, Coaching, Fame

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• The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Thinking, Player, People

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• I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

  Brenda Lee

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Foundation

  Brenda Lee, Robert K. Oermann, Julie Clay (2002). “Little Miss Dynamite: the life and times of Brenda Lee”, Hyperion Books

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• There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Country, School, White

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• However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Senior, Drug, Towns

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• It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

  Tom Petty

  Beautiful, Reality, Hands

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• Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

  Roger Kahn

  Boxing, Kidneys, Battered

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Home, Lobbyists, Forget

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• Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

  Louise Slaughter

  College, Pay, Dorms

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• It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

  Paul Tsongas

  Lying, Worry, Promise

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