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"Economics is in many respects the queen of the soft sciences. It's expected to be better than the rest. It's my view that economics is better at the multi-disciplinary stuff than the rest of the soft science. And it's also my view that it's still lousy."
"We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better."
"In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling."
"I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward."
"I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right."
"I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem."
"I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'"
"I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff."
"It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment."
"That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff."
"I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view."
"I cry alot-I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful"
"Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora."
"Making films is like making stuff together as kids."
"A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there."
"The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room."
"I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel."
"Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot."
"This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store."
"I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present."
