Randall Munroe Quotes
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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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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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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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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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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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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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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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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
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When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.
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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.
