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"I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is."
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."
"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."
"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
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"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."
"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact."
"There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way."
"It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of."
"I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me."
"Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite."
"The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate."
"As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there."
"It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things."
"People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property."
"I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going."
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