Moby (Richard Melville Hall) Quotes

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

Moby

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• Suffering
• Vegetarian
• Appetite

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• I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

  

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• I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

  

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• I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'

  

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• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

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• Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

  

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• There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.

  

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• In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

  

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• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  

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• There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

  

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• What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.

  

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• You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

  

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• It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

  

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• Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  

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• If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

  

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• Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

  

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• First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

  

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• I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.

  

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• Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
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• It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

  

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• I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

  

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• Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'

  

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• Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

  

  Moby
  • Important
  • Suffering
  • Vegetarian