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• Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Creative, Levels, May

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 159, 1951.

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• Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.

  Jack Layton

  Might, Debate, Imagine

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• Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sound, Poetry And Music, Consideration

  "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1820.

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• I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Plot, Stories

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• Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.

  Elliott Sharp

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Two

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• Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship.

  Juan Gelman

  Book, Thinking, Air

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• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  Edmund White

  Writing, America, Desire

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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• I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Thinking, Play, Important

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• At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the
  tone in which they are uttered.

  Paul Bourget

  Moments, Certain

  "Cosmopolis". Ch. 5 "Countess Steno". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.

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• When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.

  Dan Gable

  Moving, Weight, Littles

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• First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit and tone of your letter, and I think I did pretty well. []  I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh are unsightly-characterized as “hate speech.” 

  Dan Savage

  Hate, Thinking, Annoyed

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• Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Gay, Keys

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• I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

  Andy Milonakis

  Stuff, Bizarre, Shows

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• For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

  Annea Lockwood

  Music, Sound, Momentum

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• The highest tone is hard to hear.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Hard, Highest

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• I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

  Edward Burtynsky

  Thinking, Environmental, Trying

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• When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Beautiful, Voice, Cacophony

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• Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

  Harvey Dunn

  Art, Faithful, Copying

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• Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

  Harvey Dunn

  Dark, Light, Form

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• I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Twilight, Writing, Character

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• Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

  Amy Lowell

  Stars, Heart, Voice

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

  Irvine Welsh

  Skin Tone, Police, Skins

  "Trainspotting". Book by Irvine Welsh, 1993.

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• I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Different, Modern, Salvation

  Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete, vol. 2, n° 1, 1987.

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• While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Color, Giving, Tables

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• Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want this music to be soulful, whether you're giving sweet talk or tough love.

  Judith Orloff

  Sweet, Thinking, Giving

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.50, Harmony

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