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“I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.”

Years Long Two Married Seven Two Years Strings Seven Years Divorced Fling Long Relationship

Author:Sutton Foster

“I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind.”

Mind Strings Vegas Las Vegas Underwear Of My Mind Thongs

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“It's weird. I guess I got so used to [g-strings] when I was really young that I just couldn't stand it anymore.”

Young Used Strings

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.”

World Way Facts Happenings Independent Corporations Strings Disruption Combining Operators Buckminster Fuller Strings Attached No Strings Attached

Author:Jonathon Keats

“The string of accusations being made against [Donald] Trump are raising new legal questions about some of these cases. Could actually be considered criminal sexual assault.”

Made Cases Trump Criminals Strings Assault Accusation Sexual Assault

Author:Megyn Kelly

“In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.”

Thinking World Looks Has Beens War States Happens America United Opinion Enemy United States Conflict Creating Mirrors Agree Starting Repeats Who We Are Strings

Author:Norman Lear

“On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.”

Kind Real Shows Hands Week Strings Episodes Real Freedom Reinventing

Author:Charlie Brooker

“We're beginning to see some increase in incomes, and we certainly have had a long string of increasing jobs. We've got to do more to get the whole economy moving, and that's what I believe I will be able to do.”

Believe Long Whole Able Jobs Moving I Believe Economy Increase Income Strings

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes, the next one is seven, and then the third one is five.”

Firsts Use Wanted Artist Next Five Flow Thirds Notes Seven Phrases Strings Melody Haiku The Next One

Author:Terry Bozzio

“I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its own sake, to get as close to an understanding as you can.”

Feels Understanding Talking Foundation Sake Feel Good Mathematical Strings Theorists

Author:Jon Spaihts

“Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me. I then discovered Buddhism and found the perfect path. I felt so grateful to the Buddha for having given the path, and not just explaining the end result, but showing so clearly how to get there.”

Ideas Ends Spiritual Found Given Felt Perfect Results Path Buddhism Tradition Grateful Strings Pulling Explaining End Results So Grateful

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.”

Used Weapons Prison Guitar Strings Detached

Author:Truman Capote

“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.”

Past Next Couple Machines Strings Tape Delay San Francisco

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.”

Knows Wanted Song Sound Lines Walks Records Heard Please Paper Guitar Radio Strings Bass Tempo Starks

Author:Johnny Cash

“You're your kid's partner, not the person who's pulling all the strings.”

Persons Kids Partners Strings Pulling

Author:Ross W. Greene

“I don't have to be accountable to some authority, which is why I don't take federal funds. I don't want anyone's monies unless they're monies without strings attached. It's not that we don't need them.”

Want Needs Authority Fund Strings Strings Attached

Author:Marva Collins

“If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?”

Ifs Want Lines Stage Guitar Lazy Strings Steel Lap Nylon

Author:Steve Young

“Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.”

Trying Humans Past Life Is Can Do Born Consciousness Pieces Meditation Objects Ten Karma Human Life Ties Strings Tied Our Past Your Past Life Is Like Knots Past Life Chanting

Author:George Harrison

“I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Fun Involved Entrepreneur Sticks Coaches Contact Staying Strings Investors Venture Retired Emperor Reins Successors Venture Capital

Author:Masayoshi Son

“Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.”

Wells Products Series Aliens Code Strings Acid Blueprints Inaccessible

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.”

Ifs Mind Dancing Strings Chemicals Robots

Author:John Lydon

“There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to do with the mergers and buyouts and the corporations being more in control of the purse strings. We find that the projects have to come with higher expectations rather than books that just should be published. That's disturbing because we might find fewer and fewer children's books by African Americans or with black cultural themes.”

“I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs. You don't maintain a constant breath, or create internal rhythms, or even develop a fully-formed thought. The camera does all that work for you!”

Writing Doe Said Real Breaths Cameras Constant Sentences Rhythm Internals Strings Paragraph Screenwriting

Author:Jonathan Raymond

“Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.”

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Author:Hugh Kingsmill

“A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.”

Made Asks Fishes Arguing Holes Strings

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.”

Knows Kids Wanted Records Cutting Studios Strings Engineers Ripped

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.”

Individual Percent Campaigns Corporations Contribution Strings Usual Pulling Brake Campaign Contributions

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.”

Ifs Looks Made Moments Our Lives Thousand Strings

Author:Anne Lamott

“I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.”

School Practice Four Shapes Guitar Necks Strings Desks Chords

Author:Alvin Lee

“I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.”

Feels Important House Water Company Internet Strings Supplies Strings Attached No Strings Attached

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.”

Way Ideas Grows Issues Members Strings Take Time Quartets String Quartets

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.”

People Way Heart Moving Music Is Medicine Mediums Therapy Strings Heart Strings Music Therapy

Author:Macklemore

“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.”

World Common This World Poet Lovers Strings Making Love Alaska

Book:The Belle of Bowling Green

Source: The Belle of Bowling Green

“There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.”

Believe One Thing Strings Second Chance Violin Improvising Quartets String Quartets

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”

Destiny Strings Puppets Sardonic

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.”

Europe Missions Oil Strings Target Prime Combat Factories Hitting Yards Tanks Flew Aircraft Railway Refinery

Author:George McGovern

“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”

Years Hands Pieces Feet Ten Iron Strings Funny Leadership

Author:Spike Milligan

“I've cried over string arrangements.”

Strings Cried Arrangements

Author:Janelle Monae

“I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.”

Years Sometimes Reason Home Light Night Rounds Believer Mood Occasions Firm Reason Why Fairy Strings Concerts Lighting Decor Home Decor

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.”

Hurt Picks Fingers Guitar Strings Guitar Strings

Author:Bill Nighy

“Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.”

Firsts Persons Different Character Six Approach Let Me Guitar Believe In Yourself Strings Amazed Being Different Guitar Playing Individual Differences Guitar Strings

Author:Jimmy Page

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”

Science Strings Spheres Geometry Humming Geometric Spacing Math And Music Guitar Strings

Author:Pythagoras

“I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.”

Giving Mean Music Give Me Guitar Musical Bored Piano Strings Brooms

Author:Keith Richards

“When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.”

Littles Facts Shows Chance Cutting Solutions Institutions Breathe Experiments Reactions Good Times Strings Museums Purses Basements Lurking Juicy

Author:Jerry Saltz

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

Source: The Middle Span

“I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.”

Two Sometimes Objects Son Baby Eating Likes Fantastic Strings My Son Vocabulary Pizza Beans Garlic Inanimate Objects

Author:Jill Scott

“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.”

Different Voice Color Guitar Strings Orchestra Different Colors Different Voices Guitar Music Classical Guitar Guitar Strings

Author:Andres Segovia

“Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.”

People Sake Conservative Strings Realising Quartets String Quartets Trippy

Author:Bjork

“Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.”

Universal Strings One Time Beans Supposing Supposing That

Author:Gertrude Stein

“I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.”

I Can Hands Can Do Fine Strings Attacking

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

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