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" As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it. "
Moby
Want
Strange
Long
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" What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time. "
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" I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business. "
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" Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. "
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" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "
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" I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. "
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" When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it. "
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Fame
Myself
" NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside. "
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You
" I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world. "
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Feel
" For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer. "
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New York
Beautiful
City
" I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. "
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Someone
Run
" I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. "
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City
New
Amazing
" I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. "
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Absurd
Always
Feel
" There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed. "
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Society
Great
Good
" One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you. "
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Belief
Deep
Know
" The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. "
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Celebrity
Someone
Years
" New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy. "
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Tears
Place
New York
" Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. "
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Find
You
Good
" My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. "
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Hearing
Good
Argentina
" There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. "
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Reach
Trying
Support
" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "
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Intention
Things
Living
" When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music. "
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Only
Growing
Growing Up
" I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money. "
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Hearts
Money
Heart
" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "
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" A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs. "
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" For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music. "
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Music
Mom
Church
" A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost. "
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Brooklyn
Lost
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" There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing. "
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Sales
Short
Stand
" More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is. "
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Reality
My Life
Me
" The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man. "
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Renaissance
Me
Man