John Carmack Quotes
'I was sort of an amoral little jerk when I was young. I was arrogant about being smarter than other people, but unhappy that I wasn't able to spend all my time doing what I wanted. I spent a year in a juvenile home for a first offense after an evaluation by a psychologist went very badly.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
-
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
-
I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
-
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
-
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
-
There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
-
Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
-
I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
-
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
-
Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
-
I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
-
I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
-
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
-
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
-
I want to be an activist professor.
-
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
-
Don't take 'no' for an answer.
-
I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
-
I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
-
I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'
-
I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.
-
The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
-
'I was sort of an amoral little jerk when I was young. I was arrogant about being smarter than other people, but unhappy that I wasn't able to spend all my time doing what I wanted. I spent a year in a juvenile home for a first offense after an evaluation by a psychologist went very badly.'
