"An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another."
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"When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience."
"Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does."
"All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works."
"Suffering does not discriminate."
"I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations."
"My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs."
"Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something."
"What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less."
"It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true."
"My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?"
""Time" does not mean "occasion.""
"Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics."
"The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme."
"Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open."
"I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't."
"When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so."
"The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies."
"One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously."
"When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant."