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- Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of…
- Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually…
- Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
- Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
- Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
- I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
- I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying…
- I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
- I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
- It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
- The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't…
- What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
- You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
- A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're…
- The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like…
- I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
- When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless…
- The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.
- As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on…
- If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during…
- Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of…
- I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the…
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