Jaan Tallinn Quotes
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
