Stuff Quotes - Page 10

• My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

  Jack Dorsey

  Goal, Want, Simplify

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  Patrick Stump

  Uplifting, Writing, Mood

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

  Henri Pirenne

  Love Life, Eye, Historian

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• I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

  Dido Armstrong

  Orchestra, Study, Inspired

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• I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

  Dylan Moran

  Independent, Loss, Keys

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• You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

  Dylan Moran

  Wall, Talking, Giving

  "Half-cut? I'd be entirely cut, sliced and diced every which way". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2006.

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• Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

  Dylan Moran

  Years, Trying, Sensible

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• Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life.
  The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan.
  The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Sex, Rest Of Life, Sick

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.

  Julian Casablancas

  Shoes, Guy, Ends

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• You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

  Nate Berkus

  Needs, Architecture, Lots Of Money

  "The Fashionable Life". www.harpersbazaar.com. Jul 15, 2013.

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• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  Nate Berkus

  Leather Jackets, Jeans, Ties

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• Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.

  Ben Chestnut

  People, Want, Humans

  "NOTABLE FOUNDERS: Ben Chestnut (MailChimp)". Busy Building Things Interview, blog.busybuildingthings.com.

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• If you say interesting stuff on twitter, people will follow you there. I think Jim Caruso, from MediaFirst, does this well. He’s been at every single technology event I’ve ever attended in Atlanta for the last 10 years. He knows what’s going on. He’s a technology geek at heart... And he’s on twitter, tweeting about local startups, global technology news, and of course, his own clients. I follow him on twitter.

  Ben Chestnut

  Heart, Thinking, Technology

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• In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

  Jorge Cruise

  Our World, Black, Weight

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• When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Perseverance, Jesus, Crazy

  "Bethany Hamilton; AnnaSophia Robb". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 31, 2011.

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• Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

  Learned Hand

  Law, Maintenance, Regulation

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

  DJ Spooky

  Brother, Fighting, Different

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• What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Memories, Holiday, People

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• The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

  Joe Elliott

  Beer, Play, Musician

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• There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.

  Judith Viorst

  Mirrors, Self, Parent

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

  Margaret Cho

  Fashion, Consuming, I Can

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• I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Blood, Sweat

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.39, Big Earth Publishing

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• Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Powerful, Drinking

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• Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hurt, Crazy, Believe

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• I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

  Steven Moffat

  Looks, Internet, Online

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