Tape Quotes - Page 28

• I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Cutting, Government

  "Obama Announces GM, Chrysler Restructuring Plan (FULL TEXT)", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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• They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on Clinton.

  Bill Maher

  World, Radio, Doe

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• Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

  Craig Kilborn

  Yellow, Orange, Today

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• I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.

  Walter Schloss

  Office, Machines, Investing

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• So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind.
  
  Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios.
  Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense.
  
  Is like to go to the movies for free, every day.
  
  The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for:
  Sit down, Shut up and Meditate
  (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)

  Marcelo Goianira

  Movie, Drama, Technology

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• What's the point? you can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.

  Michael Jackson

  Change, Witness, Shows

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• Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
  Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
  It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

  Jack LaLanne

  Lying, Gains, Pounds

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• The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

  Rob Sheffield

  Music, Jobs, Memories

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.26, Crown Archetype

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• When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Heart, Men, Discipleship

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• They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

  Alice Cooper

  Dream, Song, Wake Up

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• Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

  Eminem

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Home, Soundtracks

  "Kill Bill: Volume 1". Interview with Michaela Latham, www.bbc.co.uk. October 28, 2014.

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• When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

  Rob Sheffield

  Music, Song, Sticks

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.24, Crown Archetype

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• You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

  Billy Sunday

  Biceps, Lines, Manhood

  "Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ".

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• How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Failure, Men, Understanding

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.36, Penguin

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• Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

  Sam Mussabini

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.

  Andy Serkis

  Voice, Agents, Casting

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• I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

  Groucho Marx

  Inches

  "Fictional character: S. Quentin Quale". "Go West", 1940.

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• I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

  Andy Partridge

  Competition, Pounds, Fantastic

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• For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

  Grete Waitz

  Success, Sports, Lonely

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• Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.

  Butch Walker

  Song, Memories, Important

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• Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Fundamentals, Six

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• To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

  John C. Maxwell

  Heart, Leader

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Form, Songwriting

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• After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.

  Nile Rodgers

  Morning, Children, Years

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