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Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
David Sanborn

Jazz, Guess, Smooth

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
Alexis Korner

Time, Same, Place

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
Gabriel Mann

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
Florenz Ziegfeld

Time, Mean, May

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
Guy Debord

Words, Makes, Idea

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
Bill Forsyth

Characters, Dialogue, Scottish

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
Linda Lingle

Best, Home, Political

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
Alan Price

Guitar, Careful, Chords

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
Anton Seidl

Simple, Speak, Nonsense

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
Marianne Faithfull

Perception, Doors, Explicit

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
Joseph Story

Government, Bad, May

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
James Schuyler

Change, Art, Elements

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
Art Spiegelman

Technology, Beautiful, Book

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.
John Abercrombie

Time, Live, Play

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
Charles D. Broad

Long, Mean, Philosophy

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
Jan Garbarek

Try, Sound, Key

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.
Don Hewitt

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
Nathaniel Smith

Money, May, Old

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
Jack K. Cooke

Win, Succeed, However

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.
Romeo LeBlanc

Time, History, Future

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
Stephen Dillane

Character, Give, Often

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.
Bill Halter

Different, Means, Public

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
John Colville

Poetry, Speech, Line

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