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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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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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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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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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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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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.
