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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
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"What's so interesting about the internet - I keep saying this - is the web has gotten worse over the last five years as opposed to better."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness."

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Tommy Lee Musician, Drummer
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"It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear."

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"I would love to do a period piece. That would be really cool. And also like to do something transformative and have to transform yourself physically to become that character. Any interesting, fun roles, I'm attracted to."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good."

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"Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect."

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Scott Walker Politician
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"Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff."

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Scott Walker Politician
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"The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to."

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Renee Watson Author, Activist
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"For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience."

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
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"In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion."

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Richard Thompson Musician
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"The good part of writing is where it gets out of your control and turns into something else. You look at it and think "Whoa, where did that come from? That wasn't what I meant to write, but it's more interesting than what I was intending. Which part of my subconscious or my experience did that come from?" Often the answer isn't clear, and often the line between fiction and fact isn't clear, either."

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