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“I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled. ”
“The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'”
“With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was li...”
“I've been a Robert Randolph fan forever, since 2001. I just thought he was so cool; you don't see a black kid playing the slide the way he plays. No one plays like Robert.”
“I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.”
“I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.”
“I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.”
“We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.”
“Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.”
“I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.”
“In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for eve...”
“For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.”
“I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.”
“I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.”
“Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.”
“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”
“When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look l...”
“During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.”
“Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live ...”
“I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.”
