John Carmack Quotes
It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.
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I'm very self-critical.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Being evil is easy.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
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Hospitality knows no gender or race.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.
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It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.
