Adam Schlesinger Quotes
I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
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To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.
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I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.
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It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
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I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
