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"The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded."
"If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time."
"I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it."
"Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of."
"With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff."
"Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true."
"I'm like a mama's boy and stuff."
"Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives."
"Obviously I don't have a stylist for everyday stuff, but for a premiere or something usually the studio will hire someone."
"I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab."
"I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics."
"I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out."
"I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time."
"I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides."
"Get a good jean, a good tee, a good whatever because you can just switch that stuff up and you have like 8,000 different outfits with a few things."
"It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s."
"I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that."
"The stuff you bring back from dreams is free."
"Safety was not a big thing when I was growing up. A seat belt was something that got in the way: 'Ma, the seat belt is digging into my back.' 'Stuff it down into the seat. And roll those windows up, you're letting the smoke out'"
"A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man."
