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Imagine. You're rushed into the emergency room. Your chest is tight. Your breathing, labored. Your pulse is faint. A cardiologist appears at your side. Immediate surgery is your only hope. The surgeon's hand reaches toward the instrument tray. At that moment, does it matter whether the hand that holds the scalpel is black, white, or brown?

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

I have a special place for Ray Brown's playing because his approach to the instrument was the thing that inspired me initially. I feel that that is at the bottom of my playing and that that is the fundamental influence that I have on my playing. He kind of holds a special place for me.

I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play.

I found goodwill in everybody -- and understanding -- but also some differences remain, ... I will keep in touch with all leaders. The government of unity is the best instrument to face the political challenge.

GMAC is in some ways both the instrument for preservation of GM intermediate term and also an instrument for GM to wield in negotiations with the unions.

I get on a real serious health kick when I'm on the road, because as a singer, you can't really get sick. If you get sick, your whole instrument stops working. I've done all these different vitamin drinks. I drink coconut water, and I run. I eat food. I juice.

He has a reputation of always surrounding himself with world-class musicians. Even if you don't play piano, no matter what instrument you play, there will be a bunch of world-class musicians on stage.

The people surround the pitch, under the sky or under the floodlights and that it's it. It's really like an instrument of perception. You cannot only design a building to make it beautiful. It has to really work well with the huge crowd that is using it.

HOLD all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them to you; even your family you must treat as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by the Lord to love, foster and guide. Thus, you must elevate your attachment into worship and make it an instrument for spiritual progress.

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx.

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

I was always able to see the defects in the design of an instrument which overlooked completely the need of its maintenance.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns

Just using our highly sensitive instrument -- our ears -- the starboard aft IMV(Intermodule Ventilation assembly) valve seems to be where the leak is. We can hear some air flow through there as the vestibule continues to re-pressurize using the station air,

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Juan loved flying more than any man I know. He was an accomplished pilot, but he spoke only a few words of English when he arrived here with an Argentinean commercial and instrument rating in 2002.

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

I thought, 'A serious instrument has to be made of wood, varnished, treated.'

I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen,

I think that when you talk about pop music, and rock 'n' roll specifically ... it's this macho instrument that guys have taken to and girls have shied away from.

It is kind of a pep team for the instrument and girls in general.

I will not be surprised if I see a more aggressive use of the CPPCC as an instrument to pacify the discontented rural population.

Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion; which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

Our key instrument and main weapon is a strong state, strong authorities, a strong government.

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Piano's really my instrument ,and that's what they'll see when I get to Tokyo this time. They never saw me play the piano.

recognizes that economic sanctions are an instrument intended by the international community to promote peace and security ... but our concern is that whenever sanctions are imposed, they should be designed and implemented in such a way as to avoid a negative impact on children.

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

Marching band today isn't your grandmother or grandfather's marching band where the band walked out onto the field, stopped and played a couple of songs and walked off the field. These students are moving thousands of steps at high tempos all the while playing an instrument or using a piece of color guard equipment during one show.

I was totally involved in trying to figure out a way of doing things with my instrument that would fit the ideas that I had in my head.

I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is based on chord changes and harmonies, and you can get 'em more out of an instrument like piano, where you can hear all the notes at once.

I think if we had at least some consistency in the testing instrument it might be valuable. And it would be certainly better than just comparing one school's scores to another school's scores in any particular year. It's about improvement and not strictly how are you doing at this particular point in time.

I think I can kind of be an instrument in my workplace to help people get a little more conscious about recycling.

I think I decided to play the organ because the instrument is like an orchestra at one's fingertips.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

Just about anything that could be wrong with the instrument is probably wrong.

It is fascinating to think of whose hands that instrument has been in.

The acquisition of Gillette's Stationery Products business further strengthens our writing instrument offering and optimizes our global distribution channels,

I would like to see us finish a (studio) album in this coming year. I'd say it will be forthcoming. It's a crime to waste an instrument as incredible as Paul's voice when it's available to you.

Most natural to me is the idea of importing new instruments into 'classical' music, particularly an instrument which, like my own electric guitar, has a place in living culture.

We are aware that last night at Abe and Jake's more than one fight broke out inside. All reports we have received are that a fight broke out on a crowded set of stairs that Rodrick Stewart was using to exit the premises. Rodrick was hit over the head with some form of blunt instrument while he was exiting. All reports we have received indicate Rodrick had no involvement in the altercation other than him being hit over the head while going up the stairs. He received four staples to the top of his head and is feeling fine today. Rodrick's being at Abe and Jake's did not violate team policies.

We really make an effort to sound exactly like the originals. The orchestra score is exact, right down to every note and instrument that was on the original recording. ... On 'A Day in the Life,' can you imagine that big orchestra crescendo happening live?

We have to move them because, where they are now, they would interfere with the instrument approach to the new runway.

Using the information gained during student focus groups, we're able to design a concise instrument that focuses on the most pressing issues.

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Unless you were instrument rated, it would certainly put you in a bad situation if you didn't have one.

We got to go to L.A., and that was pretty awesome. We did instrument tracks in Seattle, and we got to fly to L.A. and do the vocal parts and overdubs. That was pretty incredible. We got to see how it's really done.

We came to this number in concert with the Guitar Center. We felt like with $1,000 at cost we could equip someone with a playable instrument that would get them back on their feet.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

We are doing a kind of battle of the bands. There is always a need for instrument replacement and repair, so there is a need for money to be returned for those types of things. ... It is nice to see the interest of school bands and the effort that is put into getting a group together and getting them out there to perform on the street.

We are pleased that the SEC is encouraging continued dialogue around potential ways of using a market instrument to value stock options.

We are pleased that the S.E.C. is encouraging continued dialogue around potential ways of using a market instrument to value stock options. It is clear that a market-based approach would determine a real value as opposed to models that estimate theoretical value. We will continue an open dialogue and pursue an approach that will lead to an objective, market-based valuation.

The pauses, the silences. That demonstrates and illustrates the most important thing that makes this instrument what it is. If you're not making use of the staccato facility you're not making use of the instrument. You might as well be playing the Highland pipes, or a flute, for that matter.

What you see is what you get. There are no gimmicks. It's not like other forms of music where you have lots of stage props to enhance the show you have your instrument and your voice.

When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

We believe the announcement shows further evidence that Motorola's General Instrument acquisition is paying dividends. We have confidence that the company can deliver 20 percent growth in the segment through 2001.

We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!

We don't look like anything most of the people in our audience have ever seen. We wear vintage clothes-and hats-and we use one microphone for all our vocals, so there's a lot of movement on stage. We'll have every kind of harmony; every instrument will be featured; and we'll do everything from breakdowns to waltzes to gospel quartets. I guarantee this: from the moment we hit the stage until the moment we leave, the audience is going to be entertained.

With DESI it appears possible to bring the instrument to the sampling site, reducing sampling time and complexity,

We will have statistics (through the project) to show that adult day care does work and it is a very viable instrument in the care of the elderly because it provides meals, transportation, visits to the doctor and very important socialization.

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.

exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.

But Mozart has a whole different set of challenges. Mozart requires a particular sense of sound, and getting that sound out of a modern instrument after you have had years of playing Chopin and Liszt and big works like that, then Mozart becomes in a sense harder.

We cannot turn globalization back. Our challenge is to make globalization an instrument of opportunity and inclusion -- not fear and insecurity. With all the forces making the world smaller, it is time to change our way of thinking, time to realize we live together in one world, not two -- this poverty is in our community wherever we live. It is our responsibility.

We want to empower people in the community. We don't want them to just be able to play an instrument but to be leaders in music ministry. Not just in our church but in other churches.

Through this program, we get an opportunity to see for ourselves if this particular instrument makes sense and what it can do for us. It opens us up to other technologies that may prove beneficial.

We had this instrument sitting around in the house again, and it was very difficult for me not to pick it up. I was just glad I could remember the chords.

This small combination allows each instrument and the vocals to really stand out in this sparse arrangement. At the same time, we're able to put enough power and drive to really push the music along when it's called for.

We're developing a mode for keeping the arm out in front. We'll essentially stow it now by putting the instrument pack up over the rover's deck.

There have been important changes in the telecom industry in the last two years and it is not realistic to expect that a regulatory instrument signed two years ago include these changes. I am open to studying those measures that are necessary after the (Antimonopoly) Commission rules.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting.

Andy and I had a extreme view about what we wanted, ... We didn't want the music to be shrouded in mystery. We wanted every instrument to sound like itself, instead of double tracking guitars or harmonising the vocals. It was that pursuit of authenticity that Andy and I were looking for. So, apart from a bit of reverb we wouldn't use any tricks.

An instrument ground is sometimes referred to as an isolated ground.

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

Even if it's been 20 years since you have played and no longer have an instrument we can use everyone. We will find you an instrument.

First of all I should explain that synthesizers themselves, I don't consider them instruments, they are instrument makers, because you can program them to be whatever sound you want.

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself

I started the Fiddler's Hall of Fame in 1985 and I am running out of room. The fiddle is the most difficult instrument in country music because it's akin to the sweet sound of the violin.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

The workers took matters into their own hands, using a blunt instrument to beat the rat into submission. The rat was DOA.

The signing of this contract means that less gas will be left for Ukraine -- for their direct purchases. In this gas dispute, Russia gets another instrument of pressure over Ukraine.

The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories.

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

I wanted to do something that was a bit more rock 'n' roll. Because, believe me, I did not have the brains or the dexterity on the instrument to be so complex as John McLaughlin was. So I think we did a rock 'n' roll version of that.

Put your instrument into the hands of your Art and never your Art into the hands of your instrument!

Providing GE's consumer financing options through our retailers will enhance our business and marketing strategies, support store growth and deliver a higher level of customer service. The Music and Sound Program is a great way for musicians of any skill level to purchase the best instrument for their needs and make it affordable.

Radar does guide them down to a certain point ... and then the pilot just merely takes over on the instrument landing system.

RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.

Our team will fight for the possibility to form the government. We perceive these positions not as a goal, but as an instrument to realize the ideals of the Orange Revolution, ... I don't want people's trust in government to die.

Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.