Dave Parnas Quotes
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.
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He's a professional. He knows a lot about the game and can give you a lot of insights. The great thing about him is that he provides a lot of detail. He never leaves anything out. After he explains something to you, you'd be an idiot to mess it up.
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Scholars have long recognized that Luke himself wrote these speeches—they are not the speeches that these apostles really delivered at one time or another. Luke is writing decades after the events he narrates, and no one at the time was taking notes.
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Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.
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There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.
