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• I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.

  Rick Owens

  People, Focus, Messages

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• I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

  Theophilus London

  Country, Heart, Darkness

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• When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Play, Guy

  "All About the Hamiltons" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. February 9, 2015.

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• When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

  Tim Heidecker

  Crazy, School, Kids

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

  Tim Heidecker

  Long, Political, News

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

  Dionne Bromfield

  People, Design

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• I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

  William Kempe

  Order, People, Collaboration

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• When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

  Rachel Gibson

  Pain, Locks

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• My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Dad, School, Parent

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• Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.

  Hakim

  Real, Believe, Dawn

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• I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Games, People

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• I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Writing, Thinking, Paper

  "'This American Life,' en Espanol". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.

  Michael Maloney

  Gold, Matter

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• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  Dan Auerbach

  Thinking, Light, Play

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• Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Hard

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• Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

  Criss Jami

  Sports, Competition, Humans

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.

  Criss Jami

  Communication, Understanding, Today

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.31, Criss Jami

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• Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

  G. Hannelius

  Cheating, Cutting, People

  "Internet Safety Tips for Teens" by G Hannelius, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2013.

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• I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.

  Valerie Thomas

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

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• The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.

  Daniele Vare

  Art, Pride, Chinese

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• Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Space, Car

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• After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Ambition, Years

  Diary entry on August 01, 1945. "Prelude to Leadership". Book by John F. Kennedy, 1995.

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• Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Centaurs, Half

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Writing, Together

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

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