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Author:Jenny Hval

“He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.”

Trying Persons Stuff Known Changed Trump Tough Intelligent Driven Decades Boss Motivated Nails Charismatic Highly Intelligent

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.”

Ifs Want Years Firsts Matter Stuff Deals Months Amount Six Horrible Diets Six Months

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?”

Ifs Long Art Stuff Forget Company Successful Records Four Painting Equal Lawyer Forget It Gallery Record Companies Patron Leonardo Publicists

Author:Debbie Harry

“I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.”

Knows I Can Night Guy Next Stuff Black Too Much Handle Solo One Night Sabbath Black Sabbath

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.”

People Writing Firsts Sometimes Stuff My Own Love Is Projects First Love

Author:Missy Elliot

“One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."”

Knows Want Enough Lasts Guy Stuff Minutes Smart Scared Worried Interviews Compliment Cocky Last Minute

Author:Scott Raab

“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.”

Littles Shows Used Mother Song Father House Stuff Rocks Dad Musician Instruments My Dad Singers Latin Rock And Roll Brooklyn

Author:Bruno Mars

“I'm always in Malibu, and I'm a big fan of surfing and stuff. I love the beach. Someday I will live on the beach.”

Bigs Stuff Fans Beach Someday Surfing Malibu

Author:Riff Raff

“The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.”

Together Stuff

Author:Tom Waits

“I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.”

Writing Stuff Air Instruments Fingers Drawing Bees Closest Vocal Choreography

Author:Tom Waits

“My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.”

Form Stuff Secret Painting Right Now Allowing Secret Life

Author:R. B. Kitaj

“Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.”

Should Shows Stuff Raises Museums Raises Questions

Author:William Thorsell

“Selling more stuff to more people more often for more money more efficiently”

People Stuff Selling More Money Selling More

Book:Renovate Before You Innovate: Why Doing the New Thing Might Not be the Right Thing

Source: Renovate Before You Innovate: Why Doing the New Thing Might Not be the Right Thing

“People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.”

People Thinking Persons Real Hard Use Certain Turns Stuff Events Clothes Making Money Real Friends

Author:Sophie Monk

“A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.”

People Writing Matter Facts Stuff Citizens Excited Journalism Substitutes Editing Blogging Professional Writing Citizen Journalism

Author:Craig Newmark

“I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.”

Thinking Writing Stuff Make Sense

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.”

Thinking Looks Stuff Fronts Gadgets Newness

Author:Carl Honore

“To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.”

Giving Stuff Hollywood Critics Complaining Flip New Stuff

Author:Peter Farrelly

“It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.”

People Want Enough Stuff Technology Notion Good Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Genevieve Bell

“I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.”

Happens Stuff Ability Singing Flow Cameras Hanging Out Daddy

Author:Willow Smith

“Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living.”

“I’m a guy who doesn’t dwell on stuff. I let things roll off my shoulders.”

Guy Stuff Shoulders

Author:Billy Horschel

“The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.”

People Littles Play Shows Stuff Bits Hours Church Emotion Audience Cry Couple Little Bit Angel Intense Interaction Secular Theatrical

Author:Tom DeLonge

“When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.”

Writing Play Bigs Stuff Sound Ability Rocks Guitar Studios Heavy Posts Loud Aggressive Punk

Author:Tom DeLonge

“I hate all the core stuff. That’s why I have to have a trainer. That’s the only way I’m going to do the abs work.”

Way Hate Stuff I Hate Core Trainers

Author:Sarah Rafferty

“Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.”

Suffering Stuff Healthy Projects Starting Fuel Insecurity Starting Over Starting Over Again

Author:Frank Gehry

“My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.”

Used Father Stuff Creativity Window Fruit Stores Flash

Author:Frank Gehry

“Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.”

Years Spirit Passion House Stuff Pieces Seeing Months All Things Winter Folks Christmas Holiday My Passion December Reunion Holiday Spirit

Book:Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever

Source: Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever

“And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.”

People Looks Stuff Meetings Response I Realized Chains Ties Links Metals Mars Look At Me Chain Links

Author:Frank Gehry

“A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.”

Way Wells I Can Book Home Stuff Painting Comfortable Filled Fishes Sculpture Furniture Lamps

Author:Frank Gehry

“The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who worked for me on this show. Now, my response to that is yes I have. I have had sex with women who worked on this show. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women.”

Ifs Made Shows Sex Stuff Response Embarrassing Creepy

Author:David Letterman

“I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.”

People Stuff Freedom Heard Unbelievable Wildness Disorganized

Book:We: New Edition

Source: We: New Edition

“Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.”

Wells Actors Stuff Nice Accounts Animation Nice Things

Author:Paul Newman

“The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.”

Firsts Littles Long Made Stuff Black White Effects Fronts Mets Fellows Legs Shirts Italian Medieval Fitting Theatrical Hooked Trunks Stripes Slim Chaps Moustache Dandy Embroidery Albanian

Author:Edith Durham

“When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.”

Real Stuff Blow Foam Real Stuff

Book:The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future

Source: The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future

“I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.”

Stuff Rocks Type Pops Pop Music Indie Rock

Author:Amy Lee

“I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.”

Trying Looks Bigs Stuff Big Things Small Things Delegates

Author:Graydon Carter

“When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite”s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.”

Years Looks Stuff Boys Style Ten Essence Eight Nine Spokes Dynamite Duh

Author:Jason Reitman

“I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like why aren't I happier? With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.”

Feels Trying Littles Character Bigs Film Stuff Successful Figures Big Stuff Apologising

Author:Jason Reitman

“Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust. Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out and they're working it out on your time and with your heart. Some cheaters might give you an excuse, some might not have one at all, some might even blame you. No one can tell you exactly what to do when faced with this very complicated and painful situation. But the bottom line is, is this what you had hoped for in a relationship?”

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.”

Way Heart America Fighting Stuff Disease Vegetables Researchers Heart Disease Broccoli Oreos

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.”

May Might Universe Stuff Existence Perception Logic Sheep Venture Prudent Wool

Book:Practical Mysticism

Source: Practical Mysticism

“I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint well, a saint who curses.”

Wells Doe Real Shows Kids School Stuff Wife Married Let Me Saint My Wife Real Life Curse Show Business Mistress Adulation

Author:Ray Romano

“Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff”

Lying Found Stuff Lovers Glasses Broken Glass

Author:Adrian Mitchell

“The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.”

Ifs Three Stuff Fans Amount Eight Suits Buttons

Author:Chris Paul

“In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.”

Inspiration Stuff Type Eating Studios Lions National Geographic Gazelles

Author:Big Sean

“I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.”

Thinking Knows Made Stuff Rocks Kings Appreciate Gold Clarity Jewelry Pharaohs

Author:Big Sean

“It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became a screenwriter, I ended up really just doing historical drama and non-fiction based stuff, like Band of Brothers and stuff that didn't get made, but was also non-fiction.”

Firsts Made Kids Stuff Fiction Fantasy Growing Up Growing Brother Drama Band Science Fiction Historical Non Fiction Screenwriters Science Fiction And Fantasy

Author:John Orloff

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