"We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach."
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"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."
"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process."
"What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before."
"Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see."
"It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."
"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."
"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work."
"You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff"
"Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff."
"If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band."
"I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value."
"I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff."
"Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that."
"I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true."
"I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff."
"Being excited about stuff on a daily basis, I'm so excited by it."
"Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."