Jeff Minter Quotes
The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.
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It's been amazing to play a character that's known by so many people, especially because everyone knows at least something about Peter Pan.
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We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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I will say this: Rapping-wise, there has never been anybody to match Tupac's energy when coming on a song, like when rappin'. It's unmatched. You can't duplicate it.
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The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.
