Andrew Plotkin Quotes
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
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If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
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Because one of the main jobs of a CEO is to set the vision and strategy for the company, I'm a big believer in making one of the founders the default CEO.
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It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
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I grew up in the United States.
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Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.
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My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'
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If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.
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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
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It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.
