Rick Rubin Quotes
Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
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Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
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I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
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The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
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I know what it is to be out entertaining millions and yet wanting to be home because you miss your loved ones.
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Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
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Every little thing I've done so far has been a dream of mine, and I've been able to accomplish it. It's still a dream every day.
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What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
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I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.
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All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
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I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.
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Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.
