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" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "
Moby
Intention
Things
Living
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" The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work. "
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" We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short. "
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" I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. "
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" The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics. "
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" I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community. "
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" Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!' "
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" 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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" Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. "
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" I need an audience way more than an audience needs me. "
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" I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay. "
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" In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. "
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" But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. "
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" I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst. "
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Animal
Dark
" There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast. "
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Beast
Care
" I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. "
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Life
College
" I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead. "
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Smart
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" 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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Great
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" Music is just air moving around. "
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Air
Music
" I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt? "
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Work
Love
Busy
" When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. "
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" 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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Food
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" You make mistakes and you learn from them. "
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Mistakes
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