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I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people draft off of that, but they don't build it top to bottom with a specific vision.
Tony Fadell
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Designer
Bottom
Bunch
Revolution
Vision Together People
Draft
Specific
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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
Bob Dylan
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Musician
Absolutely Nothing
Difficult
Easy
Easy Way
Obvious
Way
Absolutely
Anybody
Less
Specific
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Film Actress
Grit
Beautifully
Improvise
Nor
Shakespeare
Specific
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It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.
Sofia Vergara
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Actress
School
Training
Trying
Accent
Actress
Complain
La
Specific
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I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.
Chuck Close
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Photographer
Dots
Fewer
Giving
Information
Looks
Minimum
Numbers
Photography
Discovered
Number
Recognizable
Specific
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I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.
George Clooney
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Actor
Patriotism
Debt
Disagree
Morality
Relief
Rights
Shapes
Truth Is
Africa
Inalienable
Pat
Robertson
Sizes
Specific
Virtually
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When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Singer
Band
Ideas
No Idea
Skills
Album
Big Band
Myself Me Know
Floor
Front
Harry
Met
Sally
Skill
Specific
Wiped
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When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?
Christina Baker Kline
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Novelist
Search Engine
Symbols
Unexpected
Engine
Expand
Scan
Search
Shakespeare
Specific
Topic
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I had a baseball swing my whole life. When I was growing up, everyone had a different, very specific softball swing that was very short. And I had a big stride and I had, you know, a baseball swing, and people did not like it.
Jessica Mendoza
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Softball Player
Baseball
Growing Up
Softball
Stride
Life People Know
Short
Specific
Swing
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You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
Annie Lennox
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Singer-Songwriter
Masters
People
Puppets
Want
Puppet
Factor
Joni Mitchell
Mitchell
Owned
Specific
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I'd be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage - kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific - for guest workers, so that we're not creating incentives for employers to bring in immigrants to lower the price of labor.
Ron Johnson
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Employers
Immigrants
Incentives
Labor
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Supportive
Workers
Guest
Lower
Specific
Wage
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The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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Chemist
Composition
Formal
Involved
Substance
Views
Water
Alter
Chemical
Hence
Physical
Properties
Specific
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I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I'm saying hip-hop, not rap. That's what saved my life. I carry that badge with a lot of pride and honor, and I really enjoy trying to raise the perception and the bar of what we do.
No I.d.
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Enjoy
Hip Hop
Honor
Perception
Pride
Rap
Saved
Badge
Bar
Carry
My Life
Raise
Saying
Specific
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I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.
Leonardo Dicaprio
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Actor
Movie
Comedy
Different
Genre
Huge
Mistake
Sake
Thinking
Type
Open
Different Type
Romantic Comedy
Specific
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Caleb Carr
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Novelist
Anger
Kids
Angry
Military
Largely
Specific
Vent
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Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.
Mike Vogel
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Actor
Insane
Yesterday
Life Music Always
Life Music Moment
Affects
Huge Part
Moods
Specific
Vividly
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Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.
Feng Zhang
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Autism
Cognitive
Disease
Function
Involved
Labs
Neurons
Normal
Parkinson
Identify
Memory
Processes
Specific
Studies
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Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.
Josh Trank
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Expectation
Influences
Objective
Painted
Specific
Superheroes
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The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food.
Hirokazu Kore-Eda
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Receiving
Spirituality
Apple
Cap
Japanese
Specific
Table
Thanking
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
Adam Driver
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Actor
Acting
Active
Fortunate
Perspective
Point Of View
Specific
View
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It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s.
Jonathan Krisel
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Humor
Amy
Do You Know
Gems
Jam
Pearl Jam
Pixies
Sense Of Humor
Define
Hidden
Nirvana
Pearl
Relates
Specific
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I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Actor
Acting
Character
Inner Life
Outlets
Rich
World
Life Character World
Constantly
Express
Inner
Parts
Specific
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I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.
Halsey
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Musical Artist
Bipolar
Bisexual
Community
Disorder
Race
Talk
Any
Open
Model
Having
Mixed
Role
Role Model
Specific
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I want to know everything there is to know about a specific area. And it's winning at that mastery that really drives me. I want to be best at something. I don't even know what 'this' is, but there's this inner drive to be the best.
Ben Huh
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Entrepreneur
Mastery
Winning
Drive
Area
Drives
Inner
Specific
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What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
Ben Nelson
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Former Governor Of Nebraska
Opportunity
Agree
America
Basic Principles
Equal
Equal Opportunity
May
Mean
Principles
Responsibility
Rights
Accompanied
Answer
Does
Basic
Each
Likely
Question
Responsibilities
Specific
While
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'Brave' is very specific and extremely personal. It can't be judged by people on the outside. Just can't. Sometimes brave means letting everyone else think you're a coward. Sometimes brave is letting everyone else down but yourself.
Glennon Doyle Melton
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Brave
Coward
Judged
Yourself
Very
Brave People Sometimes
Everyone
Yourself People Sometimes
Down
Else
Everyone Else
Extremely
Means
Letting
Outside
Personal
Specific
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I wrapped 'Buffy' and I always felt on 'Buffy' that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14.
Michelle Trachtenberg
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Actress
Always Me Keep
Younger
Buffy
Reference
Seemed
Specific
Wrapped
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There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.
Lucas Neff
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Actor
Embrace
Roles
Trying
Tv Shows
Tv
Actor
Good Great Start
Bring
Writers
Specific
Symbiotic
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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
Vladimir Horowitz
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Pianist
Life
Success
Clear
Dare
Dynamics
Mistake
Notes
Terrible
Afraid
Hear
Specific
Tell
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The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.
Debbie Stabenow
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United States Senator
Levels
Poverty
Producers
Rural America
Unimaginable
Bill
Facing
Farm
Government Control
Introduced
Reaction
Rural
Specific
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My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.
Sue Monk Kidd
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Writer
Core
Deep Desire
Desire
Specific
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I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.
Sarah Polley
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Film Actress
Concerned
Done
Fun
Independent
Great Me Doing
Great Me Fun
Great Always Done
Possible
Discover
Genuinely
Films
Great Thing
Independent Films
Ridiculously
Specific
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My fragrance is rose and amber, and I was just very specific. A lot of what I've done, at the stages I've done it, I've been a little naive, which brought with it a kind of charm. I did Stella a while ago. It's now a bit of a classic.
Stella Mccartney
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Fashion Designer
Amber
Charm
Classic
Fragrance
Naive
Stella
Brought
Specific
Stages
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London has a very specific kind of style; it's very different to Milan, Paris, and New York. It's nice having that personality that we haven't lost. It's the English quirky style that people like to see when they come to Fashion Week.
Matthew Williamson
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Fashion Designer
New York
Quirky
London
Milan
Specific
York
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
J. K. Simmons
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Prison
Fortunately
Oz
Specific
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You have tours that go to certain parts of the world to see a specific type of bird, and then you come back to Hollywood, and you see tour vans that go around in hopes of catching a glimpse of Halle Berry going out to get a newspaper.
Ian Harding
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Actor
Bird
Catching
Glimpse
Hollywood
Type
Berry
Halle
Halle Berry
Hopes
Newspaper
Parts
Specific
Tour
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It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
Charles Duhigg
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Writer
Contamination
Disease
Drinking
Drinking Water
Instance
Particular
Water
Cause
Link
Pinpoint
Polluted
Specific
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I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
Lynn Redgrave
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Actress
Sports
Fans
Honey
Sake
Sports Fan
Television
Turning
Channel
Specific
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It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
Blair Underwood
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Film Actor
Big Screen
Character
Honored
Mary
Real
Video
Love Music Character
Blige
Jump
Music Video
Playing
Screen
Specific
Whenever
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I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions... There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there are people like me who just perform for my parents.
Maria Bamford
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Comedian
Conditions
Stadiums
I Am Me Parents
Perform
Wild
Me I Am People
Specific
Theaters
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
Gary Bauer
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Activist
Jobs
Electorate
Personal Responsibility
Responsibility
Strong
Unique
Among
Families
Republicans
Remind
Specific
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
Umberto Eco
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Essayist
Communication
Approach
Fields
Philosophical
Tactile
Theory
Visual
General
Forms
Languages
Existing
Field
Specific
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The major problem with most attempts to predict a specific outcome, such as interviews, is decontextualization: the attempt takes place in a generalized environment, as opposed to the context in which a behavior or trait naturally occurs.
Maria Konnikova
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Writer
Environment
Predict
Naturally
Attempt
Context
Trait
Generalized
Major
Major Problem
Opposed
Occurs
Outcome
Specific
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The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific Congressional district.
Michele Bachmann
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United States Representative
Eight
Limits
Opinion
District
Congressional
In My Opinion
Representative
Serve
Specific
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I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Author
Represent
Specific
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Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.
Jay Parini
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Century
Holy
Late
Multiple
Regard
Scripture
Sequence
German
Began
Meanings
Occurred
Places
Revelation
Scholars
Specific
Subject
Texts
Varied
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
V. S. Naipaul
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Writer
Convinced
People Live See
Greatest
Live People See
Exist
Honors
Longer
Realities
Recognize
Specific
Ways
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For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
Stevie Nicks
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Singer
Friendship
Night
Song
Across
Nights
Specific
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I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
Carrie Brownstein
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Musician
Individual
Weather
Years
Admit
Anymore
Entire
Forecast
Specific
Sum
Temporal
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I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.
Shawn Fanning
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Programmer
Audio
Data
Files
Media
Mp3
Napster
Obvious
Thinking
Users
People See Media
People Media See
Different Types
Evolving
Locate
Retrieve
Specific
Types
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