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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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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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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Nigel Barton: Eh dad, why do you always walk in the middle of the road?Harry Barton: I don't know.Nigel Barton: What do you think the pavement's for?Harry Barton: Dogs to poop in, by the looks of things!
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I am doing everything to be fit - like not eating oily food, doing yoga, gymming and consulting my doc.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
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To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
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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.
