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A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
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I leapt at the tape like a man taking his last spring to save himself from the chasm that threatens to engulf him.

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister

— 1955  Of the end of his record-breaking run. First Four Minutes.

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By the way, I should say if anyone wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly.

rod blagojevich

— At a press conference, December 8, 2008, in Chicago, IL. CNN

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If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

simon cowell

— Quoted in interview, Playboy magazine (February 2007)

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What got Van Jones fired was they caught him on tape saying that Republicans are assholes. And they call it "news." And Obama didn't say a word in defense of Jones and basically fired him when Glenn Beck told him to.

van jones

— Bill Maher, in "New Rule: Float Like Obama, Sting Like Ali" at The Huffington Post (11 September 2009)]

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There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

edwin lefèvre

— Chapter XX, p. 236

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Talk about the Van Allen Belt or whatever is that, that forms no part of current Scientology, none whatsoever. Well, you know, quite frankly, this tape here, he's talking about the origins of the universe, and I think you're going to find that in any, any, any religion, and I think you can make the same mockery of it. I think it's offensive that you're doing it here, because I don't think you'd do it somewhere else.

david miscavige

— After being played a portion of an audiotape where L. Ron Hubbard describes the Xenu story — "Scientology Leader Gave ABC First-Ever Interview: David Miscavige, Scientology Leader and Best Man at Tom Cruise's Wedding, Spoke to ABC News' 'Nightline' in 1992". ABC News. November 18, 2006. Retrieved on 2010-07-03. 

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Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

erik naggum

— Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? (Usenet article)

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When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.

joe satriani

— As quoted in Guitar 2001 magazine, Issue #10, (Summer 2001)

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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

— BBC interview

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Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

andy partridge

— "Reel By Real"

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Fame is a four letter word and like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

fred rogers

— When introduced to the TV Hall of Fame YouTube video

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Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

richard rorty

— "Philosophical Convictions." The Nation, June 14, 2004.

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Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp , and let the rest of the world mirror it:;;)

linus torvalds

— Torvalds, Linus (1996-07-20). Message. linux-kernel mailing list. IU. Retrieved on 2014-04-26.

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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

larry wall

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A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.


— Chapter I, p. 2 (Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923))

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There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.


— Chapter XX, p. 236 (Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923))

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Duct tape is like "The Force". It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

unknown

— Often attibuted to Carl Zwanzig or Oprah Winfrey.

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Talk about the Van Allen Belt or whatever is that, that forms no part of current Scientology, none whatsoever. Well, you know, quite frankly, this tape here, he's talking about the origins of the universe, and I think you're going to find that in any, any, any religion, and I think you can make the same mockery of it. I think it's offensive that you're doing it here, because I don't think you'd do it somewhere else.


— David Miscavige in interview with Ted Koppel on Nightline (February 14, 1992), after being played a portion of an audiotape where L. Ron Hubbard describes the Xenu story — "Scientology Leader Gave ABC First-Ever Interview: David Miscavige, Scientology Leader and Best Man at Tom Cruise's Wedding, Spoke to ABC News' 'Nightline' in 1992". ABC News. November 18, 2006. Retrieved on 2009-03-08. 

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When we sent that first message, there weren't any reporters, cameras, tape recorders or scribes to document that major event. … We knew we were creating an important new technology that we expected would be of use to a segment of the population, but we had no idea how truly momentous an event it was.


— Leonard Kleinrock, on the first use of internet technology, as quoted in "Internet Began 35 Years Ago at UCLA with First Message Ever Sent Between Two Computers" (2 September 2004)

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My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadn't 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

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