Randall Munroe Quotes
One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
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To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.
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Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.
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CEOs shouldn't worry about their budget all the time - on a day-to-day basis, they should work on managing their company, building an awesome product, developing key relationships, identifying distribution channels, etc.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
