Stuff Quotes - Page 33

• I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

  Ben Silbermann

  Phones, Long, People

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• Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

  Francis Spufford

  Believe, Fool, Emotion

  Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber

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• The early seasons of 'The Simpsons' had a great deal of heart. That's what I'm trying to pull from, the kind of stuff that goes straight to kids' hearts. When they're watching, they don't necessarily know why they love something.

  Fred Seibert

  Heart, Kids, Trying

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• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Iraq, Space, Middle East

  "Andrew Sullivan: Dishing It Out Daily For A Decade". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 17, 2010.

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• I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

  Bob Saget

  Dirty, People, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

  Danny Strong

  Years, Play, Issues

  "Screenwriter Danny Strong Talks HBO’s GAME CHANGE, Adapting Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, and Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2012.

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• When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

  David Sanborn

  Done, Records

  "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

  Josh Turner

  Moving, Heard, Havens

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• I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

  Miles Teller

  Party, Ambition, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Years, Risk

  "With Eye On Future, Billionaire Investor Bets On Paul". www.npr.org. May 19, 2012.

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• In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

  Peter Thiel

  Growth, Today, Print

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• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  Rachael Taylor

  Thinking, Choices, Adults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Strong, Support Systems, Parent

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• I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

  Keith Urban

  Thinking, Vanity, People

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• From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

  Michael Urie

  Perspective, Trying, Ambitious

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• I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Reading, Light, Groups

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• I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life.

  Jon Voight

  Gone

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• To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

  Billy West

  Character, Plot, Looks

  "Hand-Crafted Voices With 'Futurama' Actor Billy West". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Writing, Artist, Guy

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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  Kate Walsh

  Sensitive, Medication

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Simple, Feminism, Knows

  "Mia Wasikowska: 'There's a common misconception that the loud kid in the class is the actor'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2011.

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• I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

  Mike White

  Smart, Writing, People

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• I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

  Mike White

  Writing, Trying, Viewers

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• And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

  James Young

  Light, Shining, Musical

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