John Carmack Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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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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He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
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All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
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I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
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As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as it annoys CNN and the Left.
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Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don't know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.
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It's done, when it's done.
