"I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least."
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"Enough of words. Come to me without a sound."
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"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
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"I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like."
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"The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis."
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"You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized."
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"I want it to sound like an orange."
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"Republic. I like the sound of the word."
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"My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground."
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"Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything."
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"The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free."
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"I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos."
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"Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor."
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"Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man."
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"Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him."
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"Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me."
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"Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now."
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"I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well."
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"I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!"
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"Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world."
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