Quotes About Ownership

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it.

People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

We believe used games aren't in the consumer's best interest.

As a consumer, I love nothing more than to find and support women-owned brands - and especially women of color-owned brands.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

Over the years, there have been challenges about who can use our name. It's quite simple: A majority of people left in the band at a certain time own the name. It's not like I'm the guy who has the name under my own contract.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.

I don't own copies of my own movies.

People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

There was a time when not many people had access to Malayalam films. So those who did have access went on to copy the films, add a few bits, and present it like it was their own.

I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Copyright law is too confusing.

Nobody has a copyright on 'Emotional Atyachar,' other than Anurag Kashyap maybe!

It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

I have a collection of caps, but I never count them.