Chris Crawford Quotes
I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
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I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.
