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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I had a corporate job and wore a suit to work every day, and I just kind of felt like I wasn't living my authentic self or doing what I was passionate about.
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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.
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I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.
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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.
