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"One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show."
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"That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there."

"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."

"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."

"It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical."

"As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them."

"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."

"It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it."
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"A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire."


"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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