"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."
"I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff."
"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"
"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."
"The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words."
"Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does."
"The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from."
"You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff."
"I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff."
"When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff."
"The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel."
"Stuff your brain with knowledge."
"I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own."
"Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?"
"And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem."
"Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned."
"If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud."
"I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person."
"I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later."