Stuff Quotes

• If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Stuff
  • Make Music
  • Credited

• Stuff your brain with knowledge.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Stuff

• There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

  

  Joe Goddard The 2 Bears
  • Money
  • Pop Music
  • Metarialistic

• He started when he was 17. It's great, but it's not the stuff I care about. It's something he'll look back on some day and say, 'That's remarkable.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Back
  • Remarkable

• A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Writing
  • Professional

• I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on tour, it's that sometimes things you see in the guidebooks are stereotypically the best things to do, but there's no substitute for local knowledge on that stuff.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• Can clearly say Vegemite is horrible! Like tryin' new stuff though.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Stuff
  • Horrible

• She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Coffee
  • Sparkles

• There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Stuff
  • Boards
  • Skateboarder

• If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Stuff
  • Going
  • Lifted

• I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • High
  • Sound
  • Useful

• It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Father
  • Song
  • Favorite Song

• How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Religion
  • Authority

• People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

  

  Jonathan Frid
  • People
  • Should
  • Pay

• Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Passion
  • Teach
  • Portrait

• I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Person
  • Feel
  • Happens

• The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Stuff
  • Filmmakers
  • Earnings

• I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Song
  • Space
  • Happens

• We're going to run what we run. We're not going to install a lot of new stuff, but the receivers have been running this stuff all summer. I have high expectations for them.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • New
  • Stuff
  • Install

• We make it ourselves. We use only the good stuff.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Good
  • Stuff
  • Ourselves

• We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Stuff
  • Orchestra
  • Arrangement

• Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Comedian

• When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."

  

  Confucius
  • Speech
  • Loves
  • Corrects

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