"Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless."
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"The morality of compromise sounds contradictory."
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"I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened."
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"Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?"
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"It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside."
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"Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe."
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"This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book."
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"He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks."
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"Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound."
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"Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?"
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"Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came."
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"I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I."
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"A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness."
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"Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet."
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"The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan."
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"With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much."
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"Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm."
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"It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it."
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"I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page."
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"If it sounds too good to be true, it always is."
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