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I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
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I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
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I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
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I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
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I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.
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I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.
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I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
Source: Grunch of Giants (1983)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
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