Gary Gygax Quotes
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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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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It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
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You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.
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Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
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Hello Fry, it's a ... *stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6* pleasure to meet you.
