Palmer Luckey Quotes
I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I like being unconventional.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.
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I woke up one morning to an email from my friend Alex that said she'd had her bag stolen. Ordinarily, I'm quite quick on the uptake, but - maybe because of the way it was worded - I immediately replied, 'What??????' As soon as I hit send, I realised I was being scammed. But then they replied, and I thought, 'Well, why not?'
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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
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When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
