Ben Chestnut Quotes
Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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I like risky stuff.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that create jobs here in New England. We should also demand newer, cleaner, and more innovative transmission methods.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.
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We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.
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The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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I’ve a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don’t just hear a hymn. They’re singing to God because they haven’t found anyone else who will listen.
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People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.
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Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.
