John Romero Quotes
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
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God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.
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There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
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Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
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Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.
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Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom
