John Carmack Quotes
I think that first-person shooter is a stable genre that's going to be here forever, just like there are going to be driving games forever. There's something just intrinsically rewarding about turning around a corner and shooting at something.
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My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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I follow so many beauty bloggers on Instagram.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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I think that first-person shooter is a stable genre that's going to be here forever, just like there are going to be driving games forever. There's something just intrinsically rewarding about turning around a corner and shooting at something.
