"History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff."
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"I always find stuff in my characters to relate to."
"When you're just using words, you're limiting yourself to everyday casual speak. As soon as you start to sing, you can unlock the stuff that's underneath."
"The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff."
"My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later."
"The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff."
"I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already."
"You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that."
"I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them."
"People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life"
"Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!"
"I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller."
"Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of."
"I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that."
"I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied."
"I'm just a kid. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet."
"My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff."
"You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it."
"Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made."
"I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space."