"Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear."
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"I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone."
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"This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in. I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can."
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"I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver."
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"Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you."
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"To me no profitable speech sounds ill."
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"Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone."
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"I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable."
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"Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion."
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"I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am."
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"The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come."
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"The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported."
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"We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound."
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"Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves."
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"Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance."
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"I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South"
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"I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream."
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"My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry."
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"Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure."
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"You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this."
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