Andrew Plotkin Quotes

It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

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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.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Career
  • Parents

• When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Church
  • Bible

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Reality
  • Summer
  • Awesome

• 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.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• It's very liberating to cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Hair
  • Very
  • Cut

• Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Up

• So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• 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.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Justice
  • Sacrifice
  • Farmer

• 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.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • God
  • Stop

• If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Book
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Time

• 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.

  

  David Cohen
  • Vision

• 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.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Money
  • Home
  • Business

• I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • Husband

• I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

  

  David Hanson
  • Science

• Exposing yourself to many kinds of art can only lead to amazing things. It helps you learn about your own art, your own taste, what kind of art you want to create for yourself.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • Art
  • Amazing

• Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

  

  George Washington
  • Opportunity
  • Peace
  • Constitution

• Who we were as personalities, or our emotional styles. In retrospect, I’ve come to think that mood and temperament, especially depression, not just the vagaries of career or accomplishment, in the long run shape friendships for better or worse.

  

  Nancy K. Miller
  • Depression
  • Accomplishment
  • Personalities

• It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

  

  Andrew Plotkin
  • Reality
  • Tortured
  • Virtual