Gabe Newell Quotes

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Business
  • Lawyer
  • Camera

• Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Real
  • America
  • Career

• I was an expert horseman.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Expert
  • Horseman

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Man
  • Chance

• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Bad
  • Actor
  • First

• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Wedding

• Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Moving
  • New York

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hope

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • Time
  • Emotional
  • Sad

• I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Dog

• I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Good

• When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Body
  • Force
  • Heal

• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
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