Ralph Baer Quotes
For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
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I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.
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Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
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I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.
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I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.
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For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
