"Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble."
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"That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day!"
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"We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more."
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"It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression."
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"Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy."
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"Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words."
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""What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" "We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. "We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" "If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted."
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"Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children."
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"As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome."
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"A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion."
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"For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo."
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"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done."
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"Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there."
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"She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created."
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"I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love."
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"I can easily set my tone."
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"I have no ability to develop muscle tone. I could do situps all day and still look like a condom full of walnuts."
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"For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms."
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"Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb."
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"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness."
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