Tape Quotes

• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Eye, Self, Soul

  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)

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• Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Eye, Giving

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• Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

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• If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Cds, Political

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• At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Play

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 22, 2016

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• I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dream, Song, Listening

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• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  Barry Bonds

  Writing, Records, Magazines

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

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• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  M. Ward

  Song, Player, Two

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  T Bone Burnett

  Always Trying, Ironic, Overcoming

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• When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Couple, Past, San Francisco

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Song, Islands, Long

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• In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it started. And I had a tape recorder and started making things with it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Europe, Community, Radio

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time to find the data. On large transfers, though, tape should outpace most disk systems. From an ingest perspective, LTO-6 and other enterprise tape formats may be unrivaled when compared on a single unit basis.

  George Arthur Crump

  Data, Perspective, Add

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• Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

  John Lasseter

  Waiting, Saws, Dimensions

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• By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

  Jay-Z

  Song, Memories, Thinking

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• I made my first mix tape when I was 14.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Firsts, Made

  "Being Wiz Khalifa is rather easy these days". Interview With Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 18, 2012.

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• You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Exercise, Use

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• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

  Jack LaLanne

  Work Out, Needs, Weight

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• Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

  Jon Landau

  Decision, Forever, Bob

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• Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related content. Why? Many of our readers are coming to the obvious conclusion that tape, despite the negative marketing, is still an optimal way to protect and archive their information.

  George Arthur Crump

  Marketing, Archives, Negative

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• Many companies at the 2013 NAB show were showing LTO tape archiving technology. The LTO Consortium had a popular exhibit at the 2013 NAB promoting the new LTO 6 tape standard.

  Tom Coughlin

  Technology, Standards, Shows

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• If you want to feel less sexy put scotch tape on your nipples.

  Demetri Martin

  Sexy, Scotch, Want

  Twitter post from Jun 05, 2012

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• Tape "Seinfeld" for me.

  Harvey Korman

  Last Words

  Harvey Korman's last words, 2008.

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• Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Listening, Affection, Equal

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• My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Wings, Feet, Style

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