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“I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.”

“A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.”

Love Needs Writing Firsts Stuff Powerful Study Nice Sight Notes Lists Most Powerful Love At First Sight

Author:Robert Genn

“We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.”

Trying Long Important Purpose Artist Given Stuff Space Evoke

Author:Robert Genn

“I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.”

Book War Stuff Boys Wife Week Cold Couple My Wife Cold War Spy Like A Boy Demolish

Author:Noel Gallagher

“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

People Men States God Religion Order Stuff Differences Church Common Dying Quiet Authority Hunger Ill Excellent One Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.”

Used Mother Stuff Grew Distance Folks Motherhood Ems Meant To Be Were Meant To Be

Book:A White Heron and Other Stories

Source: A White Heron and Other Stories

“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.”

Knows Inspirational Funny Stuff Worry Happened Worried Funny Inspirational Funny Motivational

Author:Will Rogers

“You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.”

Knows Play Stuff Voice Space Morning Plans One Thing Changed Tears Planets Terrible Screens Destroyed Having Fun Japan Length Toys Cartoon Robots Animated Menace Outer Space Doings

Author:Orson Welles

“The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.”

World Years Problem Stuff Technology Changing The World

Author:Steve Jobs

“I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!”

Thinking Stuff Careers Knowledge Learning Management

Author:Steve Jobs

“You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.”

Thinking Knows Looks Stuff Watches Vampire Slips Ghouls

Author:James Gandolfini

“All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.”

Long Enough America Stuff Records Laughter Mark Congress Awake Applause

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.”

People States America Stuff United Talking United States Cost Pages Congress Ships Asylums

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.”

People Running Spiritual Stuff Realizing Teacher Abuse Ruins Enlightened Guru Phony Abuse Of Power Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.”

“In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.”

Life Is Stuff Existence Consciousness Yoga Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.”

Knows Doe Stuff Scary Scar Ambiguous

Author:Jerry Garcia

“And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.”

Problem Stuff Drug Concerned

Author:Jerry Garcia

“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”

People Mean Kids Stuff Parent Audience Intention Grandparent Demographics

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.”

Writing Sometimes Stuff Nice Come Up Melody Hunters Really Nice Nice Day Forte

Author:Jerry Garcia

“And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.”

Seems Stuff Bros Warner Bros

Author:Jerry Garcia

“... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.”

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.”

Giving Wells Enough Turns Stuff Sleep Poor Lord Clear Stupid Drink Humorous Mad Rate Beer Tunes Melancholy Cows Verses Rhyme Belly Ache Pipe Lad Chaps Sleep Well

Author:A. E. Housman

“I just think God put me on this earth as a tool... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.”

People Thinking Mind Earth Stuff Achieve Tools Accomplished Mma

Author:Tito Ortiz

“I feel like karma is something that's real. I try and be the best possible person I can be, but not only that I try to help as many people as possible and influence others in a positive manner. And that's all stuff brought on by MMA because I want to be successful so want to be the best possible person.”

People Want Feels Trying Persons I Can Real Helping Stuff Successful Influence Karma Being The Best Being Successful Mma

Author:Danny Castillo

“I think it's good to surround yourself with people you care about and that care about you, and you all trust each other, and then you don't have to worry about problems and shitty stuff happening.”

People Thinking Problem Care Stuff Worry Happenings Mma Surround Surround Yourself Surround Yourself With People

Author:Nate Diaz

“As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.”

Long Stuff Mma Open Minded

Author:Jake Shields

“The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.”

Happens Stuff Can Do Accepting Mma Stuff Happens

Author:Carlos Condit

“You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.”

Needs Should Has Beens Stuff Worry Focus Should Have Mma Could Have Been Should Have Been

Author:Robbie Lawler

“I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things, you can't leave the bathroom door open...you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.”

Want Certain Stuff Doors Feet Bathroom Couches Roommate

Author:J. B. Smoove

“The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing.”

People Ifs Mean Matter Facts Feelings Stuff Records Labels Record Labels

Author:El-P

“I'm a fan of some of the hyphy stuff. Hyphy has been going on a lot longer than the press has been recognizing it.”

Has Beens Stuff Fans Presses Recognizing

Author:El-P

“There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.”

Thinking Trying Speak Fun Stuff Lines Having Fun Propriety

Author:Paul Beatty

“I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.”

Knows Years Art Left Stuff Painting Happenings Exciting Painter Holiday Elsewhere Kansas Conceptual Art

Author:David Salle

“I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some way to put things - meaning images and forms - together that highlighted some idea of what was underneath the surface of an image, what determined how something was seen.”

People Way Trying Ideas Together Film Form Stuff Photography Performances Determined Surface Retrospect Pictures And Words

Author:David Salle

“I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.”

Certain Stuff Mystery Century Style College Awful 19th Century Dickens Fluidity

Author:Josh Lieb

“A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet.”

Thinking Young Stuff Ready Be You Young Writers

Author:Josh Lieb

“The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.”

Writing Mind Stuff Faster Throwing

Author:Josh Lieb

“And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.”

Knows Stuff Catholic Guilt Plenty Catholic Family

Author:Bob Gunton

“I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone's face. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore.”

“Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write.”

Thinking Writing Past Stars Stuff Written Pressure All Time Screenplays Great Writers

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.”

Persons Turns Stuff Terrible Clothes Sitting Drinking Bars Sitting Around Pints Stuff I Like

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.”

Way Trying Use Stuff Attention Deserve Focused

Author:Natalie Portman

“I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.”

Knows I Can Stuff Planes Scare Pills Valium Ambien

Author:Natalie Portman

“What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.”

People Done Able Jobs Opportunity Stuff Possibility Creating Access Consistently Wages

Author:Barack Obama

“I like searching for the collision detection boundaries, finding invincibility glitches, and purposefully doing other stuff that normal players aren't supposed to do. In order words, I'm a bug checker.”

Order Stuff Player Normal Findings Boundaries Bugs Collision Detection Glitches Invincibility

Author:Hidetaka Suehiro

“I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.”

Writing Causes Stuff Frank Dna Trumpets Brass

Author:Quincy Jones

“People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?”

People Stuff Normal Annoyed

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.”

Men Doe Said I Can Done Problem Remember Young Used Names Stuff College Keys Conversation Computer Competition Fingers Young Man Extensions Mechanic Electronics Passwords

Author:William Shatner

“I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.”

Writing May Happens Stuff Process Enjoy My Own Collaboration

Author:Oren Moverman

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