Jesse Schell Quotes
One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.
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If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
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One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.
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Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
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There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.
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One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.
