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Moby, born Richard Melville Hall, is an American singer-songwriter and music producer known for his innovative contributions to the electronic music genre. His music blends various styles, including electronic, rock, jazz, and classical. Moby's work has had a profound impact on both the music industry and popular culture.

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“Never have public feuds with anyone who's surrounded by people who carry guns.”

People Gun Feuds

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“I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.”

Culture Found Late Pops Pop Culture Homophobic Disheartening

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“I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.”

People World Trying Looks Long Okay Entertainment Pity Misogyny Homophobia

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“I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.”

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“The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.”

Persons Moments Animal Committed Ethical Breach

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“I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.”

Children Has Beens Used Ought Vote Slavery Justify Factories Offended Fallacy

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“I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?”

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“If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.”

Ifs Christian Labels Quantum Agnostic Mechanic Quantum Mechanics

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“Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.”

Universe Christianity Becoming Complexity Conventional Becoming More Vastness

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“I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.”

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“All human belief systems are inherently flawed.”

Humans Belief Flawed Belief Systems

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“There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.”

Christian Interest Limits Function Appreciation Ignorant Fundamentalism

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“My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.”

Ifs Way Want Goal Audience Records Buying

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“My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.”

Want Goal Records

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“One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.”

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“Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.”

People Beautiful Roles Emotional Warm Inviting

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“Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.”

Animal Research Definitions Vegetarian Vegan

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“If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.”

Ifs Feels Should Writing Records Nice Clean Dinner Reviews Apartment

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“I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.”

Humans Enough Feelings Divinity Testament New Testament

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“One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.”

Long Book Sex Comfort Companionship Good Book Ants

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“If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.”

Ifs Kind Children Littles Found Fun Bits Imagine Married Little Bit Lonely Isolated Puppy Places To Live Married With Children

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“Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.”

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“It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.”

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“I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'”

Wanted Asks Instance France Titles Japan

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“These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.”

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“When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.”

People Years Long Made Hair My Friends Distinction Fifteen Fifteen Years Long Hair Short Hair Fifteen Years Old

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“When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being at home, depressed, reading 'The Hobbit.'”

People Feels Home Reading Nice Feel Good Hanging Out

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“I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.”

Men House Gay Clubs Flirting Gay Men House Music

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“Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn’t a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.”

Healing Nice Serious Music Is Profound Enjoyed Drs Proven Nice Things

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“I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.”

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“Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.”

Thinking Body Eye Levels Clear Minutes Dog Changed Ten Your Body Positive Thoughts Physiological Really Positive

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“There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.”

Humans Wells Brain Environment Negativity Threatening Human Brain

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“We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.”

Needs Age Hate Sound Focus Wonderful I Hate Uplifting Bias New Age

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“Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.”

“I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I’m paraphrasing), he’s talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you’re not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.”

Hard Joy Talking Right Now Findings My Favorite Hard Times Dentist Cultivating Just Be Happy Talking To Someone Paraphrasing

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“For me, love is very non-academic. Love, it’s a very physical thing. I don’t mean physical in terms of - I mean, it can be sexual. But those moments when I’m aware of the fact that I love someone or love something, it really manifests physically.”

Mean Moments Facts Term Love Is Academic Love Someone Physical Things

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“That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.”

Way Feels Eye Faces Cry Your Face Romantic Love Family Love Friendship Love Softness Chipmunks

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“I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really big part of my life. But it's sometimes hard to talk about. There are so many people in the world who don't live in Southern California and don't spend their time meditating.”

People World Trying Different Sometimes Hard Bigs Spirituality Reading Practice Meditation California Southern Neuroscience Meditating Meditation Practice Southern California

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“It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?”

Spiritual Guy Sound Realizing Natural Practice My Friends Down And London Drunk Cynical Meditating Spiritual Practice Perfectly Natural

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“A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.”

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“People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.”

People Spiritual Practice Stronger Immune Spiritual Practice Immune System Good Spiritual

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“What makes me vulnerable is any genuine expression of emotion in the presence of another person. It makes me vulnerable and my inclination is, of course, immediately to back away from anything that makes me vulnerable.”

Persons Courses Emotion Expression Genuine Vulnerable Inclination

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“By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.”

Wells Persons Growth Ultimate Vulnerable Well Being

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“I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.”

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“One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.”

Self Spiritual Goal Simple Practice Awareness Emotional Tools Self Awareness Vulnerability Spiritual Practice

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“Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies. You’re at the Aspen Ideas Fest, and you have these really smart, really accomplished people who pretend like they’ve somehow figured out a way to bypass the human condition. We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human.”

People Way Want Feels Humans Ideas Dies Culture Conditions Smart Lonely Sick Uncomfortable Accomplished Human Condition Awkward Want U Really Smart Bypass Aspens

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“Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.”

Dies Cases Sociopath Delusional

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“One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.”

Want Humans Helping Problem Conscious

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“There are so many causes. Gun control, climate change, deforestation, animal welfare, human welfare, education. Working on the big issues is noble and great, but being aware of what’s going on around you right at this moment, being kind to the people around you, extending compassion and decency, not just to everyone you meet but also to yourself—I think that’s one of the biggest challenges most people face.”

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“I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.”

Ifs World Feels Self Problem Compassion Honest Planets Self Love Capable Majority Disappear Love And Compassion

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About the Author

Born: September 11, 1965
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 453

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