"Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed."
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"I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it."
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"I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world."
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"This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence."
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"Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!"
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"There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months."
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"What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure."
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"These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear."
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"It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive."
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"The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers) no one sees! I go on tour.... (whispers) no one knows! NINJA! I was never here!"
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"Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business."
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"My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records."
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"Every single record I have is a fossil."
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"All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself."
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"The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access."
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"I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record."
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"I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl."
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"Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God."
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"That was a kiss for the record books."
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"War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups."
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