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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I ask my close friends to give me feedback.
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I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'
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Look, they ridiculed Jesus Christ, so I'm certainly no exception.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!
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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.
