"In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks."
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"If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too."
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"This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet."
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"She sounds the way bananas taste."
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"I ain't calling me God. I'm just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats."
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"If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound."
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"Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning."
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"Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it."
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"Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health."
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"I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true."
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"Designing a tour is a daily thing. I work on it every day for several months. I’m involved with every department, from lighting, sound, music direction, the visual direction. The set list is something I create myself and that’s the root of everything"
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"If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act."
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"With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?' It does. It also makes me sound bipolar.' Love will do that to a person."
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"She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds."
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"Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?"
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"If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate."
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"As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see."
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"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."
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"I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet."
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"You ride to battle?" Karede asked. "I was thinking more of a saunter," Mat said. He shook his head. "I need a feel for what Demandred is doing...I'm going out there, Karede, and putting you fellows between me and the Trollocs sounds delightful. Are you coming?"
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