John Carmack Quotes
Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
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We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.
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Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.
