Wil Wheaton Quotes
The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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Everyone should just be exactly who they are.
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To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.
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I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.
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The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.
