Nolan Bushnell Quotes
When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
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It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.
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I understand the process of politics and the game of television.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.
