Paul Graham Quotes
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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And understand: class differences will not save you.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
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The symbol is the tool which gives man his power, and it is the same tool whether the symbols are images or words, mathematical signs or mesons.
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
