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.'
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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.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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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.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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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.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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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.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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Sport seems to be much more important to people than politics.
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A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
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'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.'
