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I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order… — Toni Cade Bambara
Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded… — Steve Albini
I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's… — David Byrne
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. — Albert Camus
Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll… — Graydon Carter
I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of. — Santigold
The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than… — Larry Page
Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be… — Hunter S. Thompson
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. — Donald C. Peattie
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing… — Don Murray
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. — Gloria Vanderbilt
That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope… — Jello Biafra
I might not be the same, but that's not important/No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it — William J. Clinton
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if… — Bruce Schneier
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a… — Mary McGrory
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life… — Antony Hewish
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. — Aristotle
When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from… — Ayelet Waldman

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