Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with."
Tape quotes
Tape
302 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"If you want to feel less sexy put scotch tape on your nipples."
Roy Barnes
Politician
"The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak."
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape."
Juice Newton
Singer
"In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio."
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"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."
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"The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate."
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"You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?"
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"There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize."
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"right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts."
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"I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home."
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"The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos."
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"I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes."
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"I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure."
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"I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines."
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"A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything."
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"It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film."
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"Javascript is the duct tape of the Internet."
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"Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence."
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"If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out."
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"As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear."
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"I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ass."
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"Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder."
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"The lesson that I'm learning is that I've got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm."
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"So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach"
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