Markus Persson Quotes
If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
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It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.
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We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.
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If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.
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I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
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If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
