Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works."
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Catherine Bell
Actress, Producer
"I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff."
Rene Magritte
Surrealist Artist
"The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!"
Debbie Reynolds
Actress, Singer
"I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead."
Adam Garcia
Actor, Dancer
"You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff."
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"Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them."
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"Sounded like a load of waffle to me." "There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle."
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"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
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"We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head."
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"We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation."
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"We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water."
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"I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been."
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"I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it."
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"I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can."
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"I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence."
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"Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed."
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"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
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"I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane."
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"I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well."
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"When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day."
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"I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill."
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"If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever."
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"I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff."
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"Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated"
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"So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff."
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