Tape Quotes - Page 19

• Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

  Lee Child

  Giants, Middle Of Nowhere, Faces

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.599, Delacorte Press

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• I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you’ve survived, or the minutes you’ve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Thinking, Numbers

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• Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.

  Megan Hart

  Thinking, Two, Broken

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• There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape, this music. I was sort of dancing with my eyes closed and you saw me.' '...yes, I remember that occasion. I still think about it from time to time.' 'That's funny, so do I.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Eye, Thinking, Dancing

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• I glanced up at Zay, then walked over to stand next to him. "You look good with a baby in your arms," he murmured. I took his hand, careful with his fingers that were still wrapped in tape. "Don't get your hopes up, Jones. I'm not the settling-down type." "Want to bet on that?" he asked. "Sure." I made a fist; so did he. We pumped three times. I threw paper. Zayvion threw scissors. I'd lost. Startled, I looked up at him. "Two out of three?" Zay grinned. So did I.

  Devon Monk

  Baby, Hands, Two

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• There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them.

  Michael Jackson

  Hero, Character, People

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• Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, celebrating as one.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, Cheer, Team

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.

  Jack LaLanne

  Lying, Cutting, Exercise

  Source: billphillipsnews.com

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• There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize.

  Demetri Martin

  Realizing, Invisible

  Twitter post from Dec 17, 2012

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• Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

  Gabe Paul

  Baseball, Jobs, Games

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• There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, School

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

  Tina Fey

  Sex, Dad, Mines

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• All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

  Rosellen Brown

  Education, Children, Red

  Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta

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• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Running, Nice, Thinking

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• When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Beautiful, Kids, Thinking

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• I made my first mix tape when I was 14. I used to play basketball and ride bikes, but I think I just latched onto music because I figured I could be really good at it on my own.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Basketball, Thinking, Play

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

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• People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.

  Jane Krakowski

  People, Online, Shots

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• I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.

  Tyler Florence

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.

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• It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

  Busy Philipps

  California, Issues, Rights

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

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• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  Adam Pally

  Strong, Thinking, Discipline

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

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• Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

  Grant Achatz

  Goal, Looks, Next

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• I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

  Harland Williams

  Character, Boys, Voice

  "Harland Williams knew he was destined for greatness". Interview with Christian Williams, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.

  Richard Wyckoff

  Reading, Successful, Judging

  Richard Wyckoff (2006). “Studies in Tape Reading”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Sleep, Kids

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.26, Penguin

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