"Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before."
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"You can only sleep your way to the middle; you have to claw your way to the top."
"When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested."
"I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now."
"What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?"
"I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."
"In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way."
"When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be."
"A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences."
"Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied."
"If you're going to write something, that's going to be read by people, a lot of people, you hope it will not only entertain them but maybe do them some good in some way."
"Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing."
"The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy."
"It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue."
"Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images."
"In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation."
"Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way."
"Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little."
"Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it."
"What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?"