Nolan Bushnell Quotes
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.
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I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
