Stations Quotes - Page 29

• If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Fun, Good Times, Having A Good Time

  "Alexander Skarsgård Hearts Graphic Dude Scenes" by Ted Casablanca, www.eonline.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Gas Stations, Back To Work, Very Romantic

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• No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spiritual, Humanity, Thrones

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.

  Chrystos

  Cities, Names, Knees

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.

  Teddy Thompson

  Stones, Succeed, Rolling

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• Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Culture

  Source: portside.org

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• He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

  John Jortin

  Mean, Men, Greatness

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• For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.

  Paul A. Baran

  Giving, Construction, Building

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 193), 1957.

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• I'm a vegan. But, no one believes it because when you're out in the field, most of your meal options involve meat with a side of something fried. I've learned how to be creative and improvise and can eat anywhere - even a steak house or a gas station.

  Nicole Lapin

  Believe, Steak House, Creative

  "Woman of Power". Interview with 944 Magazine, November 2007.

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• Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Writing, Radio

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• If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.

  Maria Menounos

  Country, South Carolina, Roles

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Excellence, May

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• There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

  Bill Vaughan

  Success, Goal, Hazards

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• The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, People, Contentment

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• I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

  Charlotte Lamb

  Understanding, Mind, Wish

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• Money is always on its way somewhere; we are only a way station. What we do with it while it's in our keeping will say much about us - as will the direction it takes after we speed it on its way.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Money, Way, Speed

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• Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Car, Age, Radio

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• Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

  Federico Fellini

  People, Departure, Duty

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

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• I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

  Garth Brooks

  Girl, Dad, Nuts

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• When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cake, Division, Wealth

  "Shocking New Book Released on Jesse Jackson". "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. March 6, 2002.

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• HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

  Charles Simonyi

  Use, Ham, Radio

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• I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

  Dennis Prager

  Smart, Air, Gentleman

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• Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mother, Hard Work, Feet

  "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides". Short documentary narrated by Winona LaDuke, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.

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• Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

  Nellie McKay

  Independent, Oasis, Radio

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

  Confucius

  Men, Desire, Doe

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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