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I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When I was doing early pieces, I wasn't exactly in love with the idea of building the stuff. I could do it because I had the skills, but I really did it because I couldn't find anyone else to build it for me.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

I left to go off and do other things. In terms of the group, I'm definitely the boss. I wouldn't say they were scared of me, but they listen to what I have to say.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

I'm 39, and I would like to be able to make great pop music for another 20 years. And it feels like creating a sort of inanimate blond bob and allowing other people to play the role of the pop singer, it affords me a little bit more freedom in terms of my expiration date.

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very specific kinds of forecasts.

I'm, like, not overly into labels. I've been referred to that way, but I tend to think of political cartoonists as constantly at it, producing more work than I do. I do, what, six or eight covers a year, maybe, and a bunch of illustrations as well, but how many do you create a year? I'm in awe of that, and I think the term implies being at it every day or at least weekly.

I'm a terrible long-term planner.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.

I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

India has now graduated from megawatts to gigawatts in terms of renewable energy production.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

In obstetrics and gynecology, the term abortionist is still a dirty word.

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - Im not a snob like that.

In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

In terms of the production company, my brother and I are very drawn toward projects that do feel slightly outside the box. And at the same time are accessible enough that they could draw a slightly wider audience.

In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening.

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.