Randall Munroe Quotes
What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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Broadway is really my life.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?
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It's funny: I kinda still float under the radar. I'm not tall like a New York Knick; I'm not a heavy, strong New York Giant or New York Jet. I blend in pretty well. A lot of people don't recognize me too many places. More men recognize me than women.
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People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
