Ralph Baer Quotes
It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. Our music is not about me; I contribute one part, one experience, and drummer Terreon Gully brings something completely different.
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Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
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Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.
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I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife.
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I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
