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"The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack."
"Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs."
"The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat."
"I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my imagination, and what filmmaker doesn't want to do that? I feel very fortunate to have that. I don't take it for granted."
"Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality."
"Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge."
"Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver"
"The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics."
"Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work."
"By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit."
"I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack."
"The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers."
"Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self."
"Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous."
"I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine."
"Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works."
"And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools."
"Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws."
"The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately its starting to get a little saturated."
"I think that actresses can be in all different shapes and sizes, but it is a profession, and as an actor, your body is one of your big tools. So you've got to be fit in a sense."
