At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.
At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.
Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. I'd much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.
I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.
For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.
At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.
Don't try to get involved with people on the Internet because it can be very dangerous. The whole point of 'Trust' is to inform people about this issue.
Pete the Killer: [points] By the way, I took care of that thing for ya
Christopher "Chris" Wilton: I couldn't stand the whole tour thing.
