Quotes About Clarity

I'm very good at blocking out noise.

When you let outside noise into your head, you start thinking or believing whatever the hell you read or see.

Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

When you're focused, you don't hear the crowd noises, you only hear what you need to hear.

I've been really clear about this. If you want to be president, you should run for president. We should select our nominee from among the people who are running for president. Clear and simple. So no, I am not going to be the president. I am not going to be the nominee.

None of us should assume stuff.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Normally, I know what I'm doing.

That's what us northern people do don't we? Don't mince our words, just say it how it is.

People don't see much further than their noses.

I'm not interested in constantly feeding people tawdriness and confusion and chaos. The world is chaotic as it is. Why feed it to them constantly?

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

I'm not interested in story lines or trash-talk.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really only one note that you get, and that's clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They'll sacrifice the joke. They'll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.