Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.


Frank Zappa

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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
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I'm fascinated by simple joy.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
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Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
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Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
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