Palmer Luckey Quotes
I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.
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In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.
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Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
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Most small businesses in this country today are taxed at the individual level as Corporation LLC. So whatever is cut out of those earnings is money taken out of capital for reinvestment for creating more jobs and opening up more locations.
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I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
