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“Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.”

Long Battle Labels Inevitable Thoughtful Addresses Tested Implications

Author:David Quammen

“Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.”

Want Running Wine Cards Data Labels Entry Iphone Menus Typing Business Card

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The first act of insight is throw away the labels.”

Firsts Understanding Insight Labels

Author:Eudora Welty

“My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'”

Want Whole Next Company Records Team Ten Independent Albums Labels Percentages Record Companies Lasers Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.”

People Knows Men Want Country Names Secret Men And Women Individuality Labels Call Me Bisexual Ambidextrous Defectors

Book:MARTINA

Source: MARTINA

“The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.”

Knows Stills Would Be Used Sentences Labels Parks Liberalism Jane Housewife Overweight Springsteen Cadillacs Ignominy

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.”

Records Connected Labels Dissing

Author:Ice T

“You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.”

Knows Way Enough Jobs Stuff Deals Majors Myth Quitting Labels Bus Stylist Day Jobs

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.”

Said Grace New York Behavior Fellows Series Caught Punishment Labels Senators Colleagues Grace Of God Transactions Reluctance Sleazes

Book:Who will tell the people: the betrayal of American democracy

Source: Who will tell the people: the betrayal of American democracy

“If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.”

Ifs Use Shows Film Deals Watches Television Tvs Theatre Lawyer Agents Managers Labels Useless Length Devices Tv Shows Irrelevant Ipads Business Deals

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Littles Reading Chance Written Computer Pages Labels Yearning Documents Old Days Slap Processors Browsers Web Page

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.”

Trying Mind Happens Accepting Miracle Labels Open Mind Inexplicable Keep An Open Mind

Book:Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life

Source: Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life

“Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."”

People Knows Three Religious Knowledge Groups Labels Splits Contests

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.”

Thinking Writing Important Ends Play Sides Fiction Talking Break Audience Fans Reader Elements Expectations Various Honestly Boundaries Labels Genre Blur Packaging Placement

Author:Kristin Hannah

“Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.”

Want Kind Labels Delinquents

Author:Osamu Dazai

“We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).”

Reason Facts America Numbers Heard New York Claims Labels Hotel Buttons Elevators Unlucky

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.”

Labels

Author:Skeet Ulrich

“I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Mean Two Term Five Couple Thousand Twenties Independent Albums Labels Twenty Five Stooges

Author:Lester Bangs

“To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”

America Black My Own Intellectual Boxes Labels

Book:Reflections of an affirmative action baby

Source: Reflections of an affirmative action baby

“I don't use labels a lot.”

Use Labels

Author:Jack Kemp

“I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.”

Havens Majors Labels

Author:Chuck D

“What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.”

Want Firsts Made Artist Records Labels Jam

Author:Chuck D

“I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.”

Kids Wanted School Worry Grew Grew Up African American Labels Neighborhood

Author:Darius Rucker

“It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.”

Firsts Important Used Hearing Labels Skeptical

Author:Darius Rucker

“Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.”

People Ifs Wells Care Remember Records Sells Don't Care Labels I Don't Care Record Labels

Author:Darius Rucker

“You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.”

Ridiculous Labels

Author:Roberto Cavalli

“I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.”

Kind Mean Stuff Sound Right Now Band Wave Heavy Pops Labels Pop Music Heavy Music Pop Bands

Author:James Iha

“For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.”

Firsts Records Car Majors Labels Discovering Ferrari Runaway Pedals New Car

Author:Michael Azerrad

“My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.”

Helping Records Style Keys Majors Lows Labels Shirts Jeans T Shirt Converses Stylist Record Labels Low Key

Author:Michelle Branch

“Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.”

Sound Labels Branded Copycats

Author:Randy Bachman

“My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.”

Ideas Different Soul Together Situation Managers Labels Mike Buddy Curb Glee Hank Williams

Author:Solomon Burke

“I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.”

People Thinking Want Feels Kind Different Artist Numbers Majors Music Is Labels Ashamed Meant To Be

Author:Jon Crosby

“Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.”

Feels Comfortable Labels Accurate

Author:Jonathan Coe

“I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.”

Thinking Should Labels Budgets

Author:P. Chidambaram

“I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.”

People Want Matter My Own Concerned Labels What Matters Estimation

Author:Jean Dujardin

“So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.”

Years Has Beens Lasts Games Successful Labels Consistent

Author:Jermaine Dupri

“I don't put labels on myself.”

Labels

Author:John Engler

“I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.”

Writing Memories Fiction Depends Labels Genre Historic Our Memories

Author:Charles Frazier

“I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.”

People Thinking Should Hours Views Periods Management Labels Time Management Packs

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.”

Way Made Important Needed Majors Labels Signing

Author:Kina Grannis

“Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.”

Way Stills Running Audience Records Findings Labels

Author:Greg Ginn

“I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.”

People Care Values Negative Don't Care Boundaries Labels I Don't Care Call Me

Author:Michael Graves

“The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.”

Real Concepts Who You Are Labels Hiding Knowing Who You Are

Book:Art and reality: ways of the creative process

Source: Art and reality: ways of the creative process

“You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.”

People Trying Challenges Party Casts Labels Partisans Prisms Unanimity

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.”

Thinking Artist Too Much Share Diversity Majors Percent Universal Impact Strikes Labels Reasonable Countenance Hubris Cultural Diversity Regulators Too Much Power

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

“And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.”

Want Artist Song Fans Picks Conscious Albums Labels

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

“Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.”

Stills Helping Artist Roles Records Succeed Labels Record Labels

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

“I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.”

I Can Cutting Clothes Picks Simplicity My Favorite Labels Shopping

Author:Felicity Jones

“My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.”

Customers Labels

Author:Betsey Johnson

“So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure'.”

Long Government Company One Thing Labels Code Shakes Employee Competitors Motor Tarp

Author:Edward Whitacre, Jr.

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