Markus Persson Quotes
If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
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Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
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I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.
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Growing up South African, I was comparatively in a world of privilege, especially being the youngest and being figuratively wrapped up in cotton wool by the rest of the family.
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Trust in your own untried capacity.
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The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.
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If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.
