Randall Munroe Quotes
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the Gulf region and that of the Indian subcontinent are interlinked. Bilateral security cooperation between India and Saudi Arabia will contribute to regional stability and in addressing the common threat of terrorism in the region.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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The point of war is to win, Kachiun. It does not matter how we do it, or how long it takes.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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That wasn’t the song I wanted to rock out with and they told me ‘trust us, we know about radio. “So, I put it out on iTunes, the radio, the Internet, and boom! It’s a hit worldwide. I’m so happy with what’s going on in my career right now.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
