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When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
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I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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I am a good enough Canadian to believe, if my experience justifies me in believing, that Canadians are best served by Canadians.
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Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'
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To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
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Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.
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Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
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The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.
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You're looking for a lump in a bag of lumps, that can take some time
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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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When you are giving feedback, try to be descriptive and minimize judgment.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.
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If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!
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I play the piano and write music.
