"A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them."

-- Cyrus the Great

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“I pride myself on never using a cuss word on stage. Ever. I headline in Las Vegas every year, and this summer I am performing on an Alaskan cruise. Not too many comedians can pull that off. Funny thing is, my show doesn't change for Vegas.”
“Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”
“I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.”

Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
“People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.”

Source : Star Trek Database, www.startrek.com.
“Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.”
“Everybody has a different definition of the good side.”
“So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different”

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