Stations Quotes

• People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, People, Dimes

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

  John McCain

  Country, Russia, Gas Stations

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• The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

  Jim Hightower

  Party, Giving, Tvs

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• Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

  Gary Allan

  Soccer, Mom, Country

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• The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

  John le Carre

  Opposites, Intelligence Services, Secret

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• I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

  George Washington Carver

  Love, God, Nature

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• That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

  Johnny Cash

  Dream, Growing Up, Air

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

  Tommy Chong

  Teenager, Radio, Firsts

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• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Voice, People, Soul

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• In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

  Tom Clancy

  Photography, Looks, Unions

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

  Matt Dillon

  Dad, White, Wagons

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• I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

  James Dobson

  Country, America, People

  "Dr. James Dobson Sets Record Straight". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, School, Weekend

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• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  Adam Carolla

  Butterfly, Beer, Ideas

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• When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Country, United States

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• I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Space, Expectations

  "A Mission To Mars". Interview with David Levin, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

  Edward Bach

  Life Lesson, Giving, Development

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.13, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

  Ronnie Barker

  Inspirational, Funny, Police

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

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• We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

  Mario Batali

  Spring, Food, Yellow

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  Orlando Bloom

  Soul, Gas Stations, Gas

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• Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Stars, Dark, Heaven

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• All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

  James Buchan

  Nuclear, Delay, Should

  "A complete waste of energy". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2002.

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• For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

  James Buchan

  Years, Tasks, Three

  "A complete waste of energy". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2002.

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• The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

  James Buchan

  Philosophy, Political, Bags

  "Market failures". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Southern, Radio

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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