Alex Shaffer Quotes
I'm "crushable." That was the craziest thing. They called me "crushable" on some website.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
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So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words
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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
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Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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Laughter means sympathy.
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I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!
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In space, you can't see the borders. It doesn't look like a map. We're all like kids fighting in a sandbox, on the political and human side of it. The International Space Station was built in orbit. Each piece hurtled into space at eight kilometres per second. From an engineering point of view, it's madness. It's also a feat of policy - Russia, the U.S., Germany and Japan working together. Do you realize what that means? These countries were sending nukes to each other a generation ago. Space does that. It gives us that amazing big picture.
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I am always the first to say that fame and entertainment is one of the best and easiest occupations to ever have, but one must know how to navigate through the matrix or you may find yourself in a very dark hole.
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The opposite of fragmentation is not homogenization, which is a suspicious form of unity. Who wants blending, anyway? And for what purpose? Blending, somehow, always ends up privileging the perspective of the blade.
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I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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Oh yeah people recognize me, but the craziest thing? I mean I've had the normal autographs ... but I had to sign a baby's carriage once. I thought that was weird, so yeah, I guess that's the craziest thing.
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining"
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At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.
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I'm "crushable." That was the craziest thing. They called me "crushable" on some website.
