Evan Taubenfeld Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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When two sympatric, closely related species appear to have very similar needs, we may ask whether mechanisms exist that enable them to avoid direct competition. Implicit in this questions the presumption that two species with identical requirements cannot coexist (Gause 1934).
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I've always been a 'small goals' kind of guy.
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I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.
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I grew up in an all-white community.
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All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.
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I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.
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Football, particularly Brazilian football, is about being happy, and that's what tricks do. It's part of our culture, at the end of the day, though, it's all about winning.
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From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
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Redistributing tokens is a balancing act. In most cases, forks probably want to keep ownership for users constant so users have at least the same incentives to use the new fork as the historical one.
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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
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I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.
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Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
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My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.
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Confidence is the poor mans money.
