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" I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. "

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Decision-Making

" It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever? "

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" People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. "

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" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "

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" You can do great things with low-tech stuff. "

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" My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that. "

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" The fewer expectations you have, the better. "

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" The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. "

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The Problem With

" 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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" Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. "

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" As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. "

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" Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. "

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" I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. "

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" Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them. "

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" I think women are excellent social critics. "

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" A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. "

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" Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. "

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" If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. "

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" I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. "

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" Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. "

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" I'm a real workaholic. "

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" People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret. "

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