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Tim Sample

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There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

    Author: Anna Quindlen
   

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

    Author: Barbara Jordan
   

I'm a sample of Jesus. I'm a super being.

    Author: Benny Hinn
   

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

    Author: Bill Dixon
   

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.

    Author: Bill Griffith
   

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

    Author: Bob Dole
   

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

    Author: Calvin Klein
   

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

    Author: Daisy Berkowitz
   

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

    Author: Dan DeCarlo
   

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

    Author: Dan Rather
   

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

    Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
   

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

    Author: Douglas Sirk
   

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

    Author: Eberhard Weber
   

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

    Author: Edward R. Murrow
   

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

    Author: Eric Bentley
   

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

    Author: Ernst Toller
   

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

    Author: Franz Boas
   

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

    Author: Gabriel Heatter
   

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

    Author: George G. Simpson
   

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

    Author: Henry James Sumner Maine
   

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

    Author: Herbert Hoover
   

Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

    Author: James Q. Wilson
   

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

    Author: Janice Dickinson
   

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

    Author: John L. Phillips
   

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

    Author: John McCarthy
   

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

    Author: John McCarthy
   

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

    Author: Karl Liebknecht
   

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.

    Author: Kenneth Clarke
   

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

    Author: Kenneth L. Pike
   

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

    Author: Kenneth L. Pike
   

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

    Author: Klaus Schulze
   

We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.

    Author: Linda M. Godwin
   

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

    Author: Luc Ferrari
   

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

    Author: Marc Almond
   

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

    Author: Marshall McLuhan
   

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.

    Author: Michael Burgess
   

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

    Author: Mike Fitzpatrick
   

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

    Author: Miroslav Vitous
   

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

    Author: Nicole Appleton
   

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

    Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev
   

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

    Author: Peter Brimelow
   

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

    Author: Peter Brimelow
    Topics: Education

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

    Author: Peter Conrad
   

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

    Author: Richard Morris
   

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

    Author: Richard Neal
   

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

    Author: Rick James
   

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

    Author: Robert Scheer
   

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

    Author: Robert Welch
   

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

    Author: Rodney Dangerfield
   

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

    Author: Rosa Luxemburg
   

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

    Author: Roy Ayers
   

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

    Author: Rudolf Arnheim
   

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

    Author: Saad Hariri
   

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

    Author: Samuel Wilson
   

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

    Author: Samuel Wilson
   

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

    Author: Sarah Zettel
   

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

    Author: Stokely Carmichael
   

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

    Author: Vanilla Ice
   

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.

    Author: Victoria Billings
   

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

    Author: Walter Benjamin
   

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

    Author: Walter Lippmann
   

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

    Author: William Weld
   

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