"Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind."
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"Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13."
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"If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?"
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"Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record."
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"For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and when I've finished I go into my room and I have many many records - jazz, classical and popular music. And I have this all at my disposal. I don't have to get a composer."
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"I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'"
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"I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record."
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"Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something."
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"The Radiohead record, 'The Bends' is my all-time favorite record on the planet."
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"Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure."
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"There's always another record, then there's always another person to catch up with or to pass."
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"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record."
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"The past is gained, secure, and on record."
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"If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record."
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"In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and read the record of the rocks directly."
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"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."
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"It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog."
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"There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything."
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"My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time."
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