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"It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance."
"Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves."
"He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them."
"Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?"
"The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task."
"I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit."
"It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band."
"Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness."
"Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God."
"I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride."
"'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."
"If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it."
"Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation."
"The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight."
"It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need"
"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms."
"Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work."
"The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit."
"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
"Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy."
