Markus Persson Quotes
PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
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Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
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I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
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I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
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If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.
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PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.
