Moby (Richard Melville Hall) Quotes
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.
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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
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About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
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When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.
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The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.
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We may be smaller, we may be small in number, we may have a lot less money, but there are a growing number of people who are sick and tired of the campaigns to destroy decent people, such as George Bush, Sarah Palin, Clarence Thomas, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh.
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We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.
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When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
