"Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon."
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"People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction."
"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."
"In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them"
"I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies."
"The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country."
"It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life."
"If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?"
"Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill."
"I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about."
"Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can."
"That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts."
"Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness."
"I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way."
"Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting."
"I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way."
"The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm."
"Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it."
"We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways."
"Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty."