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Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan

Great, Guess, Orchestra

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
Alex Campbell

Change, Past, American

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.
Alex Campbell

Life, Best, Society

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
Harry Houdini

Question, Open, However

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
Lee Tergesen

Life, Character, Lost

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.
David Remnick

Means, Republican, Party

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.
Henry Mayhew

Whole, Within, Space

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
Christopher Darden

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
John Fogerty

Good, Song, Full

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
Neil Tennant

Power, Yourself, Able

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
Lee Konitz

Work, Players, Jazz

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
David Korten

Living, Means, Everybody

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
John Pomfret

Society, Live, Revenge

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
Ludwig Quidde

Peace, Great, Two

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel

Liberty, Virtue, Vice

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.
Joe Manganiello

True, Playing, Blood

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
Major Taylor

Great, Best, Book

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.
Anton Yelchin

Music, Movies, Fun

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
Alan Thicke

Life, Reality, Real

In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
Andrei Sakharov

After, Problems, Point

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.
William Devane

Opinion, Week, Though

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music, Important, Made

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.
George Thorogood

Confidence, Started, Awful

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
Jonah Goldberg

Book, Everyone, Bit

If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue.
Virgil Goode

Children, Cannot, Fail

However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan.
Nobuo Uematsu

Music, Game, Growth

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
Brad Bird

Movies, Television, Heroes

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.
Teddy Thompson

Music, True, Country

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
A. R. Ammons

Questions, Answers, Structure

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Paul Muldoon

Living, Edge, Poets

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