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  • I've done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There's always another interview to do. It's quite something, I have to say. -- Roger Federer
  • You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. -- Gordon Sinclair
  • The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be. -- Bernie Worrell
  • I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital. -- Tim Rice
  • Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people. -- Miriam Schapiro
  • My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien. -- Rashid Johnson
  • We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. -- Beverly Cleary
  • Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal. -- Tom Berenger
  • It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister. -- Robert B. Laughlin
  • The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers. -- Rashid Johnson
  • I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach. -- Patti LuPone
  • I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child. -- Koichi Tanaka
  • At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia. -- Amar Bose
  • My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch. -- Gerard Way
  • During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs. -- Betty White
  • Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought. -- Terry Teachout
  • I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want. -- Chris Isaak
  • The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. -- Miriam Makeba
  • In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility. -- James Gleick
  • My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home. -- Michel Gondry
  • Me and my cousin, most of the time we worked on radios and fixed them. I guess we started because I was curious to understand how radios work. When I was little, I used to think there were small people inside. Most of the time, I was just trying to see the people who are speaking in the radio. -- William Kamkwamba
  • You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers. -- Olly Murs
  • Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years. -- Nicholas Negroponte
  • God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies. -- Sylvia Plath
  • I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers. -- John Cheever
  • You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think. -- Simon Kuper
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  • You do know what I mean about Mom. It's like she radios into headquarters for Dad's feelings when she senses hers need backup. -- Sara Levine
  • There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices. -- Steven M. Greer
  • They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on Clinton. -- Bill Maher
  • I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River. -- William Wegman
  • There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There's not not billions of radios. -- Spencer Pratt
  • Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal -- Tom Berenger
  • Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums. -- Jesse Jackson
  • It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert. -- John F. Kerry
  • I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach." -- Patti LuPone
  • I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes. -- Chris Rock
  • At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia." -- Amar Bose
  • The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision. -- Anais Nin
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