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  • Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. -- Eminem
  • I just tape four Tylenols to it. -- Boris Mironov
  • Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours -- Stephen Colbert
  • Most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords. -- Jase Robertson
  • When I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape.--T-SHIRT -- Darynda Jones
  • God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART -- Corrie Ten Boom
  • When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head. -- Howard G. Hendricks
  • Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers. -- Robin Benway
  • Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head -- Michael Jackson
  • Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear? -- Eminem
  • If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them. -- Bill Hicks
  • At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you. -- Jim Rohn
  • Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen. -- Jane Fonda
  • 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. -- Nas
  • I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape. -- Richard Scarry
  • Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape. -- Preet Bharara
  • You will have to look at the tape. Actually, you could burn the tape. It's not even worth looking at... We just have to move on to next week. If we just get the next one we will be fine. -- Terrell Suggs
  • I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started. -- Andy Partridge
  • People focus too much on weight, dress sizes, and tape measurements - and those aren't motivating. What gets me going is: I'm 52, and because I work out, I know my fitness will improve and my immune system will stay strong, and my body will prevent injuries. I like being fit, strong, coordinated, and agile. -- Tony Horton
  • Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope. -- Philippe Petit
  • My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both. -- Andy Serkis
  • Tape Seinfeld for me. -- Harvey Korman
  • Tape record your parents' laughter -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful. -- Steven A. Cohen
  • Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day. -- Yoko Ono
  • Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow. -- Yoko Ono
  • If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
  • 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. -- Dennis Miller
  • Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes. -- Robert Harris
  • Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year. -- Michael Baden
  • The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music. -- Pauline Oliveros
  • [Hank in the Sex Tape] such a fun part. That's how Jake Kasdan and I ended up doing The Grinder together, because we had such a great time on Sex Tape. -- Rob Lowe
  • Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers. -- Dave Barry
  • There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation. -- Pauline Oliveros
  • I went and saw him [ John Hurt ] here in L.A.He did a one-man Beckett show of Krapp's Last Tape. I went back and saw him afterwards, and what an actor he is. He is so gifted. -- Judd Nelson
  • Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation. -- Lenny Kravitz
  • Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable. -- George Arthur Crump
  • Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills. -- Rob Sheffield
  • When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there. -- Pauline Oliveros
  • I made my first mix tape when I was 14. -- Wiz Khalifa
  • I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. -- Quentin Tarantino
  • My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves. -- Amanda Hocking
  • There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special. -- Dave Grohl
  • When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear. -- Dave Grohl
  • Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them. -- Orville Redenbacher
  • It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
  • As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies. -- Ralph Hall
  • I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.' -- Phil Simms
  • When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them. -- Jean-Marc Vallee
  • I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song. -- Jon Bon Jovi
  • I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head. -- Emma Stone
  • What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be. -- Jack LaLanne
  • I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately. -- Paul Feig
  • You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! -- Jack LaLanne
  • Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. -- Eminem
  • I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited. -- Eliza Dushku
  • The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change. -- Bruce Lipton
  • Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. -- Al Pacino
  • The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie! -- Corey Taylor
  • On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date. -- Vin Scully
  • I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind. -- Sherri Shepherd
  • It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'. -- Ian Williams
  • Sometimes magic sounds like tape. -- The Amazing Johnathan
  • Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. -- Tony Visconti
  • We can get rid of red tape. -- Charlie Daniels
  • Duct tape. Perfect weapon; so many uses. -- Taylor Stevens
  • I love to listen to books on tape. -- Angel Haze
  • It's very clean. With tape, you get noise. -- Herb Alpert
  • Nothing could be more personal than a tape. -- Julie Nixon Eisenhower
  • Javascript is the duct tape of the Internet. -- Charlie Campbell
  • Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • Red tape has killed more people than bullets... -- Ben Bova
  • The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie. -- Daley Thompson
  • I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office. -- Walter Schloss
  • The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. -- Roy Barnes
  • Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes. -- John Sebastian
  • About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape. -- Robert Vaughn
  • All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency. -- Rosellen Brown
  • But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape. -- Rob Sheffield
  • Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder. -- Olga Korbut
  • Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes. -- Tony Randall
  • When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct? -- Larry Wall
  • All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape? -- Garrison Keillor
  • I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it. -- Ray Malavasi
  • If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape. -- Vito Russo
  • So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas. -- John Frusciante
  • You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps. -- Billy Sunday
  • There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize. -- Demetri Martin
  • Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives. -- Travis Barker
  • Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped. -- Andy Weir
  • There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people. -- Adam Osborne
  • I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything. -- David Sedaris
  • You can't make a woman love you. Not even with duct tape. -- J. Richard Singleton
  • When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free. -- Rob Sheffield
  • I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home. -- Scott Eastwood
  • I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out. -- Christina Aguilera
  • To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head. -- John C. Maxwell
  • If you want to feel less sexy put scotch tape on your nipples. -- Demetri Martin
  • I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade. -- Gene Kranz
  • An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape. -- Groucho Marx
  • Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. -- Thomas Carlyle
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  • Don't ever use duct tape on your privates. That's what I always tell people. -- Rob Huebel
  • I'm thinking about recording everything to tape like it's 1991 and seeing how that sounds. -- Chuck Inglish
  • I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder. -- Dolly Parton
  • It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff. -- Van Morrison
  • A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard. -- Aaron Eckhart
  • Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. -- Charles Dickens
  • You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats? -- Prince Philip
  • The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape. -- Travis Kalanick
  • My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back. -- Orson Scott Card
  • I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. -- Beck
  • You might be a redneck if you have every episode of Hee Haw on tape. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape. -- Cornelia Funke
  • In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape. -- Pauline Oliveros
  • Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man? -- David Johansen
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