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In the shadows of monotony, there dance whispers of sequences weaving the gorgeous complexity of our existence.
Author:
Elara Garwyn
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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
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Simon Wiesenthal
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I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
Author:
Jeff Vandermeer
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Filming is repetition and many takes.
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Max Sydow
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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W. Stone
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Gertrude Stein
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When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
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Harry Shearer
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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Fiona Shaw
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The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
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Michael Schudson
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If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
Author:
William Safire
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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
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Nile Rodgers
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Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Author:
Terry Riley
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Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
Author:
Terry Riley
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So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Author:
Terry Riley
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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Author:
Dawn Powell
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Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Author:
Norman Peale
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The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
Author:
Ivor Novello
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I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
Author:
Graham Nelson
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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
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Paul Muldoon
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Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
Author:
Ikue Mori
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
Author:
Kate Millett
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Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
Author:
Archer Martin
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We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Author:
Norman Lear
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In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
Author:
Bill Laswell
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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Napoleon Hill
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
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John Grierson
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We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.
Author:
Colin Greenwood
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To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.
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Jim Garrison
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My greatest fear: repetition.
Author:
Max Frisch
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Author:
Jane Fonda
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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
Author:
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Author:
Lawrence Durrell
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I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.
Author:
Donna Dixon
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
Author:
Don DeLillo
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Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.
Author:
Marton Csokas
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Author:
Ralph Cram
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Constant repetition carries conviction.
Author:
Robert Collier
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
Author:
Ornette Coleman
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
Author:
Roland Barthes
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Author:
W. Auden
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Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
Author:
Elizabeth Arden
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Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
Author:
Rick Allen
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Author:
Muhammad Ali
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
Author:
Lascelles Abercrombie
