Amber Mark Quotes
I was always in love with the idea of making music - and always wanted to be involved in either the creative side or the industry side.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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I want you to be able to go to Aquazzura and find a shoe for every occasion, whether that's a red carpet ball or picking up your kids from school.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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I was always in love with the idea of making music - and always wanted to be involved in either the creative side or the industry side.
