Yukihiro Matsumoto Quotes
You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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I've learned to keep your mouth shut even when something bad is going on. You never know how someone is going to take something you say. You have to bite the bullet.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
