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Samples are kind of my instrument of choice. -- Girl Talk
My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, "My first concert was the Backstreet Boys," but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples. -- Nick Kroll
I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture. -- Azzedine Alaia
I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too. -- Klaus Schulze
It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about. -- Adam Ant
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines. -- Ben Gibbard
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music. -- Jay Kay
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there. -- Robert Glasper
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. -- Douglas Sirk
The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus. -- Barton Gellman
I think it's a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I'm liking Creed's Spring Flower. I think I'm going to make it my regular scent. -- Isabelle Fuhrman
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. -- John L. Phillips
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. -- Marc Almond
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. -- George Gaylord Simpson
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. -- Dan Rather
There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.' -- Romola Garai
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting. -- Michael Eric Dyson
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. -- Dan DeCarlo
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. -- Michael Burgess
Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context. -- Craig Venter
When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song. -- Martin Gore
Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated excrement and other waste in the city's waterways pose serious health risks. -- Charles Duhigg
Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals. -- Diplo
I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it to where it's more of a reimagining of a track. The songs that I do utilize samples on, most of it you wouldn't even be able to tell what it was unless I told you. -- Kid Cudi
I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird. -- Skrillex
I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college. -- Mike Birbiglia
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.' -- Nate Berkus
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over. -- Eric Topol
Lead by Example,not by showing samples -- Seyi Ayoola
Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples! -- Rick Riordan
We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not. -- Deepak Chopra
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn. -- Coventry Patmore
I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine. -- Patricia Piccinini
It's weird for me when someone asks me to do a remix as Girl Talk and not use samples. -- Girl Talk
I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending. -- Girl Talk
I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall. -- Felipe Esparza
The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers. -- Rahki
The problem you get with most today's drum samples is that when you use them, you sound like everyone else using them. -- Joey Sturgis
I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum sound. -- Joey Sturgis
Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples. -- Johnny Carson
With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level. -- Girl Talk
And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing. -- Ally Condie
I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous. -- Jens Lekman
Sell canoes to those who are enduring a drought, and sell sunscreen to those suffering from flooding. But give love freely to all, because samples encourage sales. -- Jarod Kintz
As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department. -- Zoe Tapper
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur. -- Diane Ackerman
In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons]. -- Bashar al-Assad
I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work. -- Bethany Cosentino
I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first. -- Kate Spade
I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed. -- Terry Bozzio
I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats. -- Gustav Ejstes
I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette. -- Gwen Stefani
We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
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. -- Miroslav Vitous
In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little. -- The Rocket Summer
Generally, we try to have a situation where the person is healthy, so you're not confounded by disease. So, that means that healthy individuals are donating their blood samples for the studies. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix. -- Hari Nef
If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of the labs and you can leave them off your plate. -- Neal Barnard
Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples. -- M.I.A.

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