Nicolas Massu Quotes
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
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Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.
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I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
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I just don't want to get in a situation where I'm negotiating my health for money.
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The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.
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When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
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We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.
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I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.
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There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.
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I wouldn't say you can engineer viral. But there is viral content that comes from dense communities.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.
