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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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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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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I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
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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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To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honourable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions which beget further war.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
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I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
