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• Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

  Sarah Zettel

  Night, People, Trying

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• If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence.

  William George Jordan

  Home, Grit, Littles

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• I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.

  Felipe Esparza

  Dad, Son, May

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• I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

  Neil Young

  Song, Design, Needs

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• I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming up with melodies; but at the time I [still] just couldn't, so my early beats were really sample-based.

  Lunice

  Play, Piano, Used

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Rapper, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

  M.I.A.

  Song, Made, Seeds

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples are used, the way the electric guitar is used. I'm thinking of things that are particular to this era. But I don't always feel particularly close to the music of my peers. I often feel that I have more in common with writers and visual artists. I try to connect to people in an emotional kind of way.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Artist, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations.

  Chris Hegedus

  Organization, Records, Audio

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of the labs and you can leave them off your plate.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Blood, Labs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Strong, Guitar, Brain

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• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, if there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Strong, Writing

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• I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy that conquered it. He actually went on an expedition after the Everest climb to look for the Yeti, and they didn't find it, but they found a footprint and some hair samples that turned out to be a goat or something.

  Rhys Darby

  Hair, Guy, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of the time, if I have samples, I can't tailor a sample. Or, I might have just bought something and I don't have time to go to the tailor, there are ways to take thin, skinny belts and layer them, and do quick little fixes.

  Olivia Palermo

  Way, Skinny, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only a tinkerer in ways to do things, I'd started from Dylan Thomas. As a screen dramatist he was a very intense visualist, with great timing and fluency.

  William Monahan

  Stuff, Way, Fluency

  Source: collider.com

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• I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.

  Rahki

  People, Musician, Looks

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• When I first starting making beats, I didn't know samples were being used in any beats. I had no idea where producers were getting the real string sounds or the voices on their tracks. I knew nothing about loops or sampling off of records. So, by me knowing nothing about this it made me concentrate on my chords on the keyboard.

  Rahki

  Real, Knowing Nothing, Ideas

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

  Rahki

  Track, Originals, Concentrating

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• I feel like this song [Yello, "Oh Yeah"] was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio. There was probably no thought behind it; they were just playing with some samples and threw it together. I feel like there's no dream behind the song. Usually there's a dream or some kind of passion attached to a song. This song feels very empty. It made a lot of money for the songwriters but at the expense of culture.

  Margaret Cho

  Dream, Song, Couple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Reality, Perfect

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• You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

  Andy Cohen

  Real, Thinking, Portfolios

  "Bravo Exec On The Art Of Creating 'Reality'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. August 12, 2009.

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• Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

  Woody Allen

  Race, World, Aggressive

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• The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA?

  Jay Leno

  Military, Dna, Able

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• Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

  Johnny Carson

  Happiness, Blonde, Liquor

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