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“I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.”

Thinking Kind Sound Style Ears Towns Pumps

Author:Michael McKean

“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Running Romance Left Sound Rooms Typewriters

Author:Gene Fowler

“Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.”

Thinking Sound Policy Wishful Thinking Public Policy

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.”

Thinking Way Sound Growth Gains Labor Performances Bases Reform Combination Permanent Improving Unemployment Reducing Adjustment Sustaining

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?”

Thinking Knows Trying Sound Existence Band Mature

Author:Adam Rich

“What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.”

“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.”

Thinking Way Life Sometimes Use Pain Beautiful Joy Fall Sound Water Prayer Silence Sky Praying Happenings Very Good Crowds Odd Over You Fourth Floats Rockets July Very Beautiful

Author:Frederick Buechner

“I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.”

Thinking Knows Important Literature Sound Pieces New York Pops Radical Occasional New York Times

Author:David Talbot

“However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.”

Thinking Sound Term Environment Effects Sound Effects

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.”

Thinking Knows Sound Television Who You Are

Author:Robert Urich

“If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.”

Ifs Thinking Song Sound Voice Mad

Author:Jessie Ware

“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.”

“On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Shows Fun Sound Levels Things To Do Awards Fun Things Award Shows

Author:Zachary Levi

“I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.”

People Thinking Way Want Should Littles Jobs Sound Loses Millions Notes Dare Who I Am Like Me Sensitive Accents

Author:Jack McBrayer

“I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.”

People Thinking Knows Sound Simple Talking Television Perfectly Good

Author:Paul McGann

“The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.”

Thinking Real Problem Girl Sound Too Much Minutes Like You Offers Busy Therapy Happy With Yourself Being Happy With Yourself

Author:Robbie Williams

“You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Philosophy Film Sound Direct Asking Response Pompous

Author:Michel Gondry

“I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.”

Ifs Thinking Important Sound Voice Animal Audience Band Important Things Things To Do Collectives

Author:Andrew Dost

“I'd have to say, and I think that most Christians would hold the view, that there is such a thing as evil, and there are evil forces at work. You can articulate that by talking about Satan or the Devil; that's sound, Scriptural teaching.”

Thinking Christian Evil Force Sound Views Talking Teaching Devil Satan

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Today Young Sound Voice Wonder

Author:Connie Smith

“I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse”

Ifs Thinking Sports Sound Records Broken Keys Skills Satisfied Get Better

Author:Kenny Florian

“There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.”

Thinking Way Want I Can Reality Might Sound Becoming Promise Accomplish I Promise Semantics

Author:Maynard Webb

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Heart Matter Age America Song Sound Subjects Elements Subject Matter Writing From The Heart

Author:Gerry Beckley

“You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!”

Thinking Play Guy Sound Concepts Flutes Tenors Sopranos

Author:Jerome Richardson

“I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers asked me and saying you want to be an actor sounds a little bit silly. And I do still feel a bit silly saying it. You feel a bit fraudulent.”

Thinking Want Feels Littles Stills Wanted Actors Bits Sound Teacher Little Bit Boring Silly Vets

Author:Sophie Thompson

“Now it's become sort of a - you know, just sort of a casual thing, and you can vote any time at all. It doesn't increase turnout. It hasn't increased turnout, really. And I don't think it's a healthy development. I sound like an old fogey here.”

Thinking Knows Sound Development Healthy Vote Increase Casual

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.”

People Thinking World Way Feels Mean Together Song Sound Clear And Love Feel Good Suits Melody Puzzles

Author:J. Robbins

“Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.”

Thinking Want Needs Giving Sound Voice Personality Need You

Author:Ester Dean

“I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.”

Thinking Song Sound Studios

Author:Aurora Aksnes

“It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.”

Thinking Sound Lessons

Author:Jeremy Piven

“This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.”

Thinking I Can Sound Imagine Crazy Guitar Piano Guitar Playing

Author:Ryan Adams

“It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.”

Thinking Writing I Can Sometimes Play Remember Sound Pieces Amount Paper Shocking Channeling

Author:Ryan Adams

“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Feelings Sound Term My Own Expression Paint Dislike Cult Isms Expressionism Exponents

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.”

People Thinking Want May Mean Jobs Certain Sound Born Simple Class Conditions Perspective Betrayal Betray

Author:Thomas Frank

“If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Kind Made Stories Bigs Sound Happened Messages Clever Made It Boast Cleverness

Author:Dave Gorman

“People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't say, "What will people think?" They say, "What's the best way to handle this?" The amazing fact is that God created each one of us as a separate, unique person amid billions of other separate, unique individuals. So the best way to achieve real fulfillment is to be yourself.”

People Thinking Way Persons Real Facts Individual Sound Decision Achieve Unique Billions Handle Best Way Fulfillment Being Yourself Unique Individuals

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'”

Thinking Long Ideas Home Running Sound President Walks Business Cases Fire Plans Building Ought Work Out Ems Beneficial Exit New Home Hoover

Author:Will Rogers

“When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Hands Fall Sound President Party Magic Taxes Crosses Bigger Boat Voters Fall Back Yacht Delaware Row Boats

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Different Beautiful Film Actors Sound Industry Aging Accepted Forty Prime Beautiful Things Film Industry

Author:Michiel Huisman

“Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.”

Thinking Way Sound Uncertainty Probability

Author:Dennis Lindley

“Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream.So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words?Thought about it yet?Good.And now, think why.”

Thinking Dream Beautiful Sound Wonder Awe Evoke Great Times Your Favorite Awe And Wonder Favorite Words Funny Question

Author:Vera Nazarian

“You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.”

Thinking Feels Play Light Stuff Sound Visuals Arena Really Cool Larger Than Life Sound Systems

Author:Dan Auerbach

“I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.”

Thinking Sound Voice Huge

Author:David Lynch

“However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Sound Results Mirrors Crap

Author:David First

“Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.”

Thinking Feelings Running Sound Conversation Losing Machines Sight Mood Weather Remembered Cycles Length Leisure Countryside Meditating Sight And Sound Losing Time

Book:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Earth Lost Sound Risk Huge Losing Percent Rewards Math Obsessed Wealthy Losing Money

Author:Tony Robbins

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”

Thinking Mean Form Sound Color Painting Instruments Sake Drawing Excitement Palette

Author:John French Sloan

“Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.”

Thinking Sound Emotion Audience Emotional Type Essentials Musician Wave Engineers Organize Sound Waves

Author:Stefon Harris

“Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.”

Thinking Want Suffering Sports Sound Voice Imagination Poor Existence Depends Fishes Fancy Convenient Sufferers Sportsman Anglers

Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal

Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal

“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.”

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Author:John Cage

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