Damian Kulash Quotes
There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.
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I love my country so much.
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Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
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I come from a protected environment of a Juhu house, and I wasn't exposed to life as shown in 'Highway'. It's not that I'm a snob, but I was cocooned from the reality of life. The film made me aware of life and myself.
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That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.
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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
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In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.
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There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.
