John Carmack Quotes
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.
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The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.
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Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
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It's done, when it's done.
