Palmer Luckey Quotes
If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
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My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
