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• I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Ordinary, Rakes, Common

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• When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

  Joy Behar

  People, Presses

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• Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

  Sinead O'Connor

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• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

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• I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

  Dierks Bentley

  Cheer, Nice, Awards

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• I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

  Glenn Hughes

  Mom, Rocks, Guitar

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• There aint a microphone brave enough to give me feedback!

  Canibus

  Giving, Brave, Enough

  Song: Buckingham Palace, Album: Can-I-Bus, 1998

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• The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  "Julian Castro's 5 notable lines" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I like doing voiceover work. I just like it in general, because you're constantly working on a very first-instinct level. You show up, you get in front of the microphone, you look at the lines, you say the lines, and then you move on. You work on a really primal level, is what I'm saying. You don't have to shave. You don't even have to wear pants. But, uh, that wasn't your question.

  Ron Perlman

  Moving, Looks, Levels

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Yes, I always say that were a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

  Emmylou Harris

  Mean, Play, League

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• (on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Character, Thinking, Evil

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

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• Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Real, Artist, Skills

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• It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.

  Russell Brand

  Real, Fans, Rooms

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• Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Baby, Grandmother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.

  Peter Bradshaw

  School, Intelligent, Oxford

  "Boys will be boys" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.

  Robert Plant

  Adventure, People, Track

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.

  David Frum

  Bullying, Years, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

  Terrell Owens

  Running, Past, Cameras

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• I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.

  Young Thug

  Home, Range, Studios

  Source: theurbandaily.com

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• My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' [John] O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Hands, Two

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Teenager, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

  Henry Rollins

  Comedian, Buffets, Helping

  "I’m Lovin’ It" by Henry Rollins, www.vanityfair.com. July 14, 2010.

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• The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so.

  Henry Rollins

  Leader, Female, Doe

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• I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.

  Demetri Martin

  Writing, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

  Michael Caine

  Hands, Laughing, Frustrated

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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