Markus Persson Quotes
I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I love to push myself.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
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Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
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I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.
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I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.
