Aphex Twin (Richard David James) Quotes
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
Quotes to Explore
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
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And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we’ve grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled.
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We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
