Nolan Bushnell Quotes
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.
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Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.
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The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
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People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
