Rodney Atkins

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!

American Musician

Darren Star

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.

American Producer

Paula Poundstone

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

American Comedian

Lapo Elkann

The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

Italian Businessman

Leslie Jones

They redid 'Roots,' and everyone was saying, 'Oh, it shouldn't have been done.' I was like, 'It definitely should have been done.' Because it needs to be refurbished for the new generation so they can understand it.

Robert C. O'Brien

Ventilators can be reused but hospitals need a sufficient supply to treat critically ill patients while still allowing enough time for each ventilator to be refurbished between patients.

American Public Servant

Roman Coppola

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

American Director

John Prescott

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

British Politician

Jaclyn Smith

I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

American Actress

Shaun Evans

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

English Actor

Refurbishing often implies making something look visually appealing and new.

Visual Transformation

Refurbishing does not mean completely rebuilding; it's about improvements on what's already there.

Not Rebuilding

The process also involves updating the functionality, like adding modern facilities.

Functional Improvements

In a technical context, refurbishing extends the useful life of equipment or devices.

Tech Life Extension

Refurbished tech is an environmentally friendly alternative to buying new.

Environmental Choice

Some might think refurbishing lowers quality, but it often restores it.

Quality Misconception

 and to actually refurbish the place. And we were able to have a community meeting. And within the community meeting, people got up and said, "This place feels like a plantation. Why are we locked in? Why can't we learn theater?" Over the years, people had started putting in chicken coops, hay bales,

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 they're all expendable. All rockets that fly today are fully expendable. The space shuttle was an attempt at a reusable rocket, but even the main tank of the space shuttle was thrown away every time, and the parts that were reusable took a 10,000-person group nine months to refurbish for flight.

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 in March 1999, settling into dorms barely refurbished and helping their professors not only sweep out the classrooms but move in the desks and the chairs and the microscopes. Over the next few years, governments throughout the Americas requested scholarships for their own students,

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 slow down car traffic on even more streets now pittsburgh has a long-standing commitment to innovation and this bike plus plan helps usher into the transportation system new innovative forms of mobility it might be that dusty schwinn hanging on the garage now refurbished

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 And we took him under our wing. It was an honest trust issue. He trusted us, even though we were on death row. And through that trust, we saw him and his colleagues from the university refurbish the library with the latest technology

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 and the tens of thousands of technicians across the country that refurbish electrical and electronic equipment, and sell them as used products to consumers that may not be able to buy a new television or a new computer.

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 when the refurbished prison was ramping up to reopen, the county's elected officials celebrated. Why was the county so interested? It owned the prison, and the private company just ran it. Having prisoners on the inside

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 And the economy indeed seemed to start showing some signs of life. The next mayor came along. He started MAPS for Kids, rebuilt the entire inner city school system, all 75 buildings either built anew or refurbished.

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 Scots invented the modern world and what we see in the slide here is their their national museum the newly refurbished National Museum of Scotland which has had some two million visitors over the

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 deceased is different people are in because picking the bones means to refurbish the body of the deceased and to move into a new residence the grave