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Actually, The Most Entitled People I've Met Are Indie Rockers And Indie Actors, Because They Really Believe Their Press.

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This quote by Moby reflects deeply on the theme of believe. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Believe, People, Actors, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

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Worry
Understanding
The Way I Work On Music Is That I Go Into My Studio, And I Start Playing Music, And I See What Happens, And... I Never Think About It.
Thinking
Playing Music
Way
It's Almost Like A Sign Of Mental Illness To Base Your Self-worth On The Opinions Of Complete Strangers, You Know?
Self Worth
Opinion
Mental Illness
I'm Actually Cautiously Optimistic That Donald Trump Will Be So Bad That He Will Force America To Wake Up And Realise That Forcing America To Vote For Right Wing Republicans Is Always A Terrible Idea. It's Never Been A Good Idea, But What Happened Here Is You Have A President Like Obama Who Gives You Eight Years Of Relative Stability And Prosperity, And People Forget That Republicans Are Just Terrible, Not Just For The Country But For The Planet. Maybe This Is America's Equivalent Of Bottoming Out, Like A Crystal Meth Addict Going On One Last Big Run Before They Have To Get Sober.
Running
Country
Optimistic
Better A Loving Single-parent Family Than A 'conventional' Family Where The Parents Hate Each Other And The Father Is A Demagogue.
Funny
Family
Father
I Don't Want To Get Too Nuanced, But We Have The Electoral College In The United States And That Means We Don't Have Direct Democracy.
Mean
College
Democracy
I Feel Compelled To Make Art That On One Hand Reflects And Sometimes Almost Creates Like A Sense Of Comfort When Confronted With The Strangeness Of The World.
Art
Hands
Comfort
Some Of The Songs I've Made, I'm Really Disappointed In How I Mixed Them.
Song
Made
Disappointed
The Aggressive, Energised, Political, Or Even Politicised, Culturally Aware Music Hasn't Really Existed [recently].
Political
Aggressive
One Time I Was Doing An Interview For A Gay Magazine And Halfway Through The Journalist Found Out I Wasn't Gay. He Said, 'sorry, I Can't Continue The Interview.' Because They Only Had Gay Public Figures In Their Magazine. I Felt So Crestfallen. I Wanted To Tell Him: But I Play Fundraisers For Gay Marriage! I'd Rather My Kids Were Gay Than Straight!'
Sorry
Kids
Gay
The Good Thing About Not Being Drop-dead Gorgeous Is That As Time Passes, I Don't Have Much To Worry About. I Have Friends Who Are Actors And Every Day They Look In The Mirror With Trepidation.
Mirrors
Worry
Looks
I Like My Coffee Like I Like My Romantic Partners: Cold And Bitter And Prone To Giving Me Anxiety Attacks.
Coffee
Giving
Anxiety
If Nirvana Had Remained A Small, Underground Punk Rock Band, Kurt Cobain Would Still Be Alive. And He'd Probably Be Living In Seattle, Getting Kind Of Fat And Balding, Be Relatively Happy And Producing Records For Other People.
Rocks
People
Band
There's A Fairly Extensive Network Of Musicians On Tour Who Are All Trying To Stay Sober, And We Generally Reach Out To Each Other And Offer Support When And Where We Can.
Support
Trying
Musician
But On A Utilitarian Level, I Realize That To Try To Accomplish The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number Of People, Sometimes We Have To Become Salesmen For What We Believe, And Part Of Being A Salesman Is Being Effective.
Believe
Numbers
People
I Live In New York And I Love Hanging Out In Gay Clubs, And A Lot Of My Friends Are Gay. But, For Better Or For Worse, I'm Not Gay.
New York
Gay
Clubs
I Know It's Simple, But My Main Inspiration Is Just My Love Of Music. I Know That Sounds Overly Naive. But It's True.
Inspiration
Simple
Sound
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
Pops
When I Was In My Twenties, I Thought I Was Bulletproof.
Twenties
Bulletproof
I Truly Believe, As An Institution, Most Major Labels Should Just Die.
Believe
Labels
Should
One Simple Word: Ugh. Is Something Still Considered A Conspiracy If It's Played Out Right Under Our Noses?
Simple
Noses
Ugh
There's Really No Reason For Any Musician, Writer, Actor To Ever Take Themselves Seriously. If You Work In A Needle Exchange, Take Yourself Seriously. You're Doing Good Work. If You're Involved In Hostage Negotiations And Saving Lives, You Can Have A Sense Of Entitlement.
Musician
Actors
Saving
You Could Almost Say That Throughout Human History There Are People Who Can Either Foresee Consequences Or Who Are Capable Of Looking For Information And Predicting The Consequences Will Happen, But The Vast Majority Of People Won't Respond To Climate Change Until Their City Is Underwater, Food Supply Is Disrupted Or Everyone Around Them Is Dying Of Zoonotic Disease. It's Almost Like Someone Dealing With An Addiction, Like You Hope That The Person Can Overcome The Addiction Before The Addiction Kills Them.
Cities
People
Addiction
I'm Pretty Much A Realist. There's A Certain Age You Get To When You're Not Really Going To Be Shown Anymore.
Age
Realist
Certain
I’ve Never Seen The Need To Choose One Type Of Music At The Exclusion Of Another. That Would Feel Kind Of Sad And Arbitrary.
Arbitrary
Exclusion
Kind
At The Risk Of Sounding Pedestrian, I'll Be Completely Honest: The First Thing I Do In The Morning Is Check Google News, Partially Because It Seems Sort Of Random And Unbiased And Partially Because I Tend To Stay In Hotels That Don't Necessarily Have The Fastest Internet Connections.
Morning
Risk
Google
There's Not A Lot Of Precedent For Weird, Bald Musicians In The Lower East Side Making Records In Their Bedrooms And Going On To Sell A Lot Of Copies Of The Record. Especially If You Look At The Pop Climate.
Musician
Climate
East
I'd Much Rather Go To A Banksy Art Show Than A Moby Art Show. My Art Is Painfully Naive.
Art
Art Is
Shows
Scotland Is One Of My Favourite Places To Perform: It's Really Something Special. Scottish Audiences Are Just So Enthusiastic; Their Approach To Dance Music Just Feels Similar To My Own Somehow.
Scotland
Special
Scottish
I Buy Things With The Best Of Intention Of Living In Them And Then Life Intercedes.
Intention
I Don't Think Of Myself As A Singer; I Usually End Up Singing When I Can't Find Anyone Better To Sing, Or When I'm Too Lazy To Find Someone Better.
Thinking
Lazy
Singing
Success Usually Breeds A Degree Of Hubris.
Degrees
Hubris
I'm A Terrible Cook, So I Usually Eat Out With Friends.
Terrible
Cooks
When I Was Growing Up, Albums Were My Closest Friends, As Sad As That May Sound - Joy Division's 'closer,' Or Echo And The Bunnymen's 'heaven Up Here'... I Had A More Intimate Relationship With Those Records Than I Did With Most Of The People In My Life.
Growing Up
Echoes
Intimate Relationships
I Love It When Celebrities Fall Apart, You Want Them To Fall Apart Like Charlie Sheen.
Fall
Want
Falling Apart
I Like Noise. It's Always Puzzled Me Why One Of The Goals Of Contemporary Recording Is To Get Rid Of Noise And To Eliminate Any Element Of A Performance.
Goal
Elements
Noise
In An Odd Way, Donald Trump And Maybe Brexit Is Gonna Be Great For Inspiring A New Wave Of Socially Conscious Political Music.
Political
Way
Odd
I Still Never Get Recognized. Small, Bald White Guys Like Myself - We All Kind Of Look The Same.
White
Guy
Looks
I Love Lots Of Different Types Of Music, But It's Music That Has This Up-swelling Of Beauty And Emotion That Is Most Important To Me.
Important
Different
Emotion
I've Had Insomnia Since I Was A Little Kid And I Never Sleep Well. Sometimes I Sleep Very Badly And Sometimes I Sleep Slightly Badly. I Get It Especially When I'm On Tour Because You Cross A Lot Of Time Zones, And I'm Not Very Adaptable.
Sleep
Kids
Insomnia
Basically We Should Stop Doing Those Things That Are Destructive To The Environment, Other Creatures, And Ourselves And Figure Out New Ways Of Existing.
Vegetarianism
Way
Vegan
I Used To Have A Lot Of Envy For Those Musicians Who Have Been Universally Loved.
Envy
Musician
Used
There Are A Lot Of Great Animal Rights Organizations Who Save Dogs And Save Cats, But The Humane Society Is Actually Really Good At Working With Congress And Getting Legislation Actually Passed.
Dog
Cat
Animal
It Takes A Unique Woman To See Me As Any Sort Of Catch.
Unique
I Find London Really Exciting But There's A Lot Of Vicious Success Here. Like New York, There's A Lot Of Incredibly Successful People Who Feel Incredibly Entitled, Perhaps Justifiably, But I Don't Want To Be Around Viciously Entitled People.
New York
Successful
People
I've Been Making Music For Thirty-six Years And, You Know, I'm Still Just As In Love With Working On Music Now As I Was Thirty-six Years Ago.
Years
Six
Thirty
My Secret Is Being Not Terrible At A Lot Of Things.
Secret
Terrible
When I Dj At Big Venues I Try To Play Tracks That I Would Want To Hear If I Were E'd Up In A Field With 50,000 Other People.
Play
People
Track
If We Base Our Belief Systems On The Humble Assumption That The Complexities Of The World Are Ontologically Beyond Our Understanding, Then Maybe Our Belief Systems Will Make More Sense And End Up Causing Less Suffering.
Humble
Understanding
Suffering
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.
Dog
Eye
Thinking
When I Was Growing Up I Was An Atheist, Then An Agnostic, And Then I Had A Good Eight Or Ten Years Of Being Quite A Serious Christian.
Christian
Atheist
Growing Up
There Might Be A Lot Of Difference Between Republicans And Democrats On Key Social Issues Like Women's Rights And Health Care. But When It Comes To Taking Corporate Cash, They're Pretty Much The Same Beast.
Keys
Rights
Differences
If The Entire World Decided To Become Vegan Tomorrow, A Whole Host Of The World's Problems Would Disappear Overnight. Climate Change Would Decrease By 25 Percent, Deforestation Would Cease, Rainforests Would Be Preserved, Our Water- And Air-quality Would Increase, Life-expectancy Rates Would Increase, And Our Rates Of Cancer Would Plummet, So Certainly, With That One Action Of Becoming Vegan You Are Quite Effectively Making The World A Better Place.
Cancer
Air
Water
Everyone Feels Awkward, Everyone Feels Uncomfortable, Everyone Gets Older, Everyone Gets Lonely, Everyone Gets Sick, Everyone Eventually Dies.
Lonely
Sick
Awkward
Whether The Virgin Mary Existed, I Don't Know. But The Human Need For Her To Appear In Tortilla, That's What Inspires My Interest.
Inspire
Needs
Tortillas
What Makes Me Feel Old Is Having No Hair On The Top Of My Head.
Hair
Feels
The Young Have To Kill The Old. The Young, If They Want To Achieve Their Own Platform, Have To Diminish The Reputations Of The Ones That Have Gone Before. That's How Life Works.
Gone
Want
Reputation
I'm Envious Of People Who Can Sleep As Long As They Want. I Have The Circadian Rhythm Of A Farmer.
Sleep
Long
People
In The Past I've Had Public Feuds With People, And I Have Really Not Benefited From Any Of Them. The Feud With Eminem Did Kind Of Torpedo My Career In The United States, But It Also Introduced Me To Middle America In A Way I Never Could Have Conceived Of.
Past
Careers
America
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