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"The best project is one that asks a novel question."
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"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you."

"I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before."

"The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want."

"The best project is one that asks a novel question."

"There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do."

"Today, we are not just launching a project that will irrigate land and light up homes. We are reviving a region, restoring hope, renewing life and redefining Afghanistan's future. The dam is a generator not just of electricity but also of optimism and belief in the future of Afghanistan."

"I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet."
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"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view."


"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background."


"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."


"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."


"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."


"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."


"In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment."
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