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People started showing up. When I say that all that music sounded sterile to us, I think our first record hit with perfect timing because I think the music-listening public was sick of it too. And people with loud guitars, solos, loose playing? I think it was fun for people to hear that, it reminded them of something.

Craig Finn

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Freda Adler

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.

St. Basil

The advantage to [metal implants] is that they're sterile. But the disadvantage is they don't remodel over time.

Keay Nakae

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.

Warren E. Burger

The trip to Iraq was one of the most grueling and hardest things I've ever done. One day it was 140 degrees. But it was also the most rewarding experience. I never felt so appreciated. I've played a lot of bars and at sterile corporate events, but the troops really welcome you with open arms.

Singer Gina Notrica

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Alan Alda

We really just wanted our songs to be anthem guitar rock with a great message. He was so awesome at capturing a moment in time and space, not concerned with making it so perfect it made it sterile.

Will Mcginniss

You can do it yourself, but the trick is to make sure you get it in the right place, you get it mixed up well and it's as sterile as possible.

Cody Wright

Before a fisheries manager had to think long and hard before introducing a new species ... by making fish sterile we can make a mistake and still reverse it. If it doesn't work, we don't stock it anymore and it disappears.

Doug Nygren

The last thing we would want to do is to take Gilman and gut it and turn it into a sterile space. Hodson is a great building, but we don't want another Hodson.

Adam Falk

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Aneurin Bevan

The U.N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U.N. in theory is supposed to be but can't.

Richard Holbrooke

The gold standard, if you will, is being able to have a label on the product that says it's sterile.

Keay Nakae

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the yeast for at least one affair, probably more. You can say it couldn't happen here, but just let a yeast raiser into the place and first thing you know - bread!

Helen Gurley Brown

It was a sterile presidency.

Claude Moise

What you're really getting is sterile communication. I think you can get to know a lot about [the other person], but there's so much about them ... that you don't know.

Melissa Martin

It's just prudent to have a chemical safety program, ... We don't want to have a sterile leaning environment, we want kids to have a rich learning environment while keeping them safe, that's the same issue every school faces.

Dean Baker

I understand it doesn't feel good. I understand the concerns of the message we are sending, but if sterile needles aren't available, people will be forced to use contaminated needles they find on the streets.

Renee Cox

There is a series of sterile bags, and it all is contained in one kit. The blood never leaves that kit.

Denise Todero

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.

Emile Durkheim